ANNOUNCEMENT 01 Mar 2009

In March 2009, a US state government announced a targeted tax change.

NUMBER OF INTERVENTIONS

1

  • 1 harmful
  • 0 neutral
  • 0 liberalising

SOURCE



Main data from Good Jobs First at http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/sites/default/files/docs/Megadeals_February2015.xlsx.
Annie Johnson, "Solar incentives: Here's where the money was spent," Nashville Business Journal (August 19, 2011), online at http://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/print-edition/2011/08/19/solar-incentives-where-money-was-spent.html?page=all. T
"German Solar Firm Plans $1B Tenn. Plant," Nashville Business Journal (February 26, 2009)


Inception date: 01 Mar 2009 | Removal date: open ended
Still in force

Tax or social insurance relief

In 2009 state and local governments in Ohio provided a package of incentives to Wacker Chemie for a polycrystalline silicon plant. The $210.5 million subsidy package included $83 million from the state in job tax credits, sales tax exemptions and infrastructure grants. On the local level, the company received property tax abatements worth $127.5 million over 20 years. Wackie Chemie is a company headquartered in Germany.
 
The GTA includes state guarantees and other financial incentives thatare likely to affect the restructuring and performance of firms facinginternational competition, whether from imports, in export markets, andfrom foreign subsidiaries.

AFFECTED SECTORS

 
342

AFFECTED PRODUCTS

 
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