MUST READ: The Minority Report From The Tax Credit Review Commission
As Show-Me Policy Assistant Kacie Galbraith noted last week, I was not high on the idea of reconstituting the Missouri Tax...
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Tax Credit Review Commission Delivers Final Recommendations; Expect No Surprises
The subcommittees on the Tax Credit Review Commission are delivering their final recommendations. From an article by the Missouri Watchdog:...
Testimony Before the Missouri Tax Credit Review Commission
The Missouri Tax Credit Commission held a regional meeting in Saint Louis yesterday, and I delivered testimony that tax credit...
Regarding Missouri’s New Tax Credit Review Commission
Now that the $150 million incentive package for Ford has passed, it’s apparently time to reverse positions and talk tough...
Call for Music Production Tax Credits Sounds Familiar
Gateway Studios is using a hodgepodge of incentives to build a $130 million music production facility in Chesterfield. The company...
Film Tax Credits Still a Bad Idea
It is appropriate that in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch story on an effort to reinstate film tax credits, the newspaper...
Film Tax Credits: Facts and Fiction
Over the weekend, the St. Louis Post Dispatch published a piece about yet another Missouri-based television program that is being...
Don’t Get Too Excited about Film Tax Subsidies
The City Council of Kansas City, Missouri, recently passed an ordinance establishing Kansas City’s first film development program. This program...
Touted Benefits of the Film Tax Credit Program Are Misleading
On Wednesday, March 18, the House Committee on Economic Development and Business Attraction and Retention held a hearing on House Bill...
Missouri’s Film Tax Credit Should Remain Gone
Many Missourians—including myself—took pride in watching Gone Girl on the silver screen. Now with an Oscar nomination to add to...
Gunning For Tax Breaks
It appears the Missouri House is set to approve a bill that would grant a tax break to gun manufacturers...
Wow: Missouri Accounts For Nearly One-In-Seven Historic Preservation Tax Credit Projects
So say stats from the National Park Service that were delivered to the reconstituted Missouri Tax Credit Review Commission last week....
On Commissions And The Fountainheads Of Reform
One of the first books I read in my introduction to the liberty movement was Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead, the...
Michigan’s Mamtek: Yet Another Reason Missouri Should Abandon Film Tax Credits
Apparently Missouri representatives failed to show at the annual Association of Film Commissioners International Show in Los Angeles. Jerry Berger...
Could Nine People Stop Tax Credit Nonsense In 2012 (And Maybe Help State Budget)?
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial board is urging Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) to stall the awarding of state tax credits....
Tax Credits as a Tool of State Economic Development Policy
Tax incentives are among the main instruments of state and local economic development policy, and tax credits are among the...
A Victory for Missouri Taxpayers
The Missouri General Assembly has finally adjourned its special session without creating $360 million in new tax credit programs. This is great...
Aerotropolis Tax Credits Are Still a Bad Idea
Today, the St. Louis Business Journal published a letter by Jeff Rainford, chief of staff for Saint Louis Mayor Francis...
Defeat of ‘China Hub’ or ‘Aerotropolis’ Bill a Significant Victory for Missouri Taxpayers
It was the “Big Idea” that couldn’t — and didn’t — pass. The defeat of a bill calling for the...
Even the Midwest China Hub Commission Knows “Aerotropolis” Tax Credits Are Flawed
You know a policy proposal is bad when its proponents admit internally that the proposed policy is problematic. It turns...
