Let Expired Agricultural Tax Credits Stay That Way
…tax credits remain dead, and the same thing goes for the film tax credit (wasteful), the low-income housing tax credit (rampantly abused by developers), and just about every state and…
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Kansas City Needs a Patron Saint of Tax Subsidy Reform
…tax credits, historic tax credits, the above-mentioned property tax abatements, tax-increment financing, and other programs. What they have not been able to access are EEZ tax subsidies. That, apparently, has…
They’re Back! Film Tax Credits Haunt the Missouri Legislature
Like a horror film bogeyman, legislation creating film tax credits is back! Both HB2027 and HB1767 attempt to set up tax credits to benefit people who make films in Missouri….
It’s All About the Tax Credits, Baby
…the tax credits will continue for ten years for plants that are deemed eligible before PTC expires, new plants won’t be eligible after 2020. Show-Me Institute analysts have often written…
A Plague on Both Your Tax Credits!
Economic development tax credits that, whatever their intended purpose, enrich a few at the cost of the many are simply bad policy. Such tax credits fail to deliver on their…
Film Tax Credits Still a Bad Idea
…Missouri.” The town of Ebbing does not exist; neither do the benefits of film tax credits. Back in 2010, Missouri’s own Tax Credit Review Commission wrote in their report that the film…
Senate Bill 85 and Low-Income Housing Tax Credits
On February 1, Show-Me Institute Senior Analyst Elias Tsapelas submitted testimony to the Missouri Senate Economic Development Committee regarding the low-income housing tax credit. Click here to read the full…
Update on Webster Groves Development
On October 5, David Stokes joined The McGraw Show on The Big 550 KTRS to provide an update on the Douglas Hill Development in Webster Groves. …
Tax Credits Are an Undesirable Strategy for Missouri
…afford giving tax credits to select firms and businesses during difficult economic times. Tax credit programs place an additional burden on taxpayers who are already hurting in difficult economic times….
