Money for Nothing: Industrial Tax Abatements and Economic Development

by Laura A. Reese and Gary Sands

Although widely utilized, industrial property tax abatements have a dubious record of accomplishments. In addition to failing to deliver promised jobs and investments, tax abatements appear to contribute to urban sprawl, impose substantial cost burdens on older municipalities and have limited positive effects on community economic health, This book uses Michigan's Industrial Facilities Tax abatement program to develop policy recommendations to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 073916662X
• ISBN13: 9780739166628
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher