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At recent cocktail parties, site-selection expert Katie Culp has heard this more than once: 'It must be a great time to be in your line of work.' Culp, president of [...]

Introduction Faced with a difficult financial climate, states must decide how to remain competitive and drive economic development. While formulating their economic stimulus plans, states must consider that "given the [...], State tax incentive programs for companies have become a very popular method for encouraging economic development and the creation of new jobs. Cities and states often aggressively compete against each other for new business. The winners often cite the number of new jobs brought to the area and the increase in future tax revenues as measures of their success. Critics often question the number of new jobs created by a particular project and cite limited anecdotal evidence showing that taxpayers sometimes failed to recover the tax dollars spent in attracting a new business or keeping an existing employer. This article evaluates some the economic benefits and costs of tax incentive programs, with a special focus on programs in Missouri. We also discuss the desirable characteristics of successful programs and how to make them more accountable to the taxpayers.

Investing in innovation is a key component of the Administration's strategy for fostering economic growth. Many of the innovation investments proposed by the Administration would be funded by tax incentives [...]

With the global recession in full swing, a window of opportunity has opened for nations that offer appealing locations and quality production services for a fraction of what they would [...]

Floyd County in Georgia is promoting a well-trained and educated workforce through collaboration of the county's school systems and economic development officials. Details on effort to provide training and the county's tax breaks and downtown development are discussed.

Over the past four decades, Ireland has developed a thriving pharmaceutical sector, thanks to a government policy designed to promote inward investment, it is now the world's largest net exporter [...]

Fringe benefits, known as benefits in kind or perks, are non-cash items one receives on top of the salary. Many of these benefits are liable to income tax, but have a key advantage for employees in that they are usually free of National Insurance, a potential saving of pounds sterling 110 on a benefit worth pounds sterling 1,000 at the Class 1 National Insurance rate.

Current U.S. tax policy toward research and development (R&D) is based on the notion that the United States is the dominant competitor in the world for technology-intensive products. (1) While [...]

The authors discuss the proposed House bill 463, the Investment in America Act of 2003, and its possible impact on US research and development tax incentives and whether it would aid competition internationally.

President George W. Bush's proposal to cut dividend and capital gains taxes will do little to prevent corporations from seeking tax shelters. Nor will it motivate corporations to pay out more of their income in the form of dividends.

Margaret Kent and Robert Feinschreiber compare two perspectives of America's loss of one-third of its manufacturing jobs in the past 43 years: one seeing the loss of manufacturing jobs as [...]