Government has long used sundry tax breaks, in lieu of direct subsidies, to attract business or real estate developments to a particular locality. This also has been a perennial political issue. Here ...

There are many, many things wrong with Mayor Daley’s pet economic development tool, tax increment financing, but what tops my list is that while it’s intended to benefit poor, blighted communities, it ...

There is less than a year to go in the 23-year life of the FIATALLIS tax increment financing district on the south side of Springfield. It would be better known to thousands of daily commuters at ...

Not only is Iowa City most likely losing its Von Maur to Coralville, but its taxpayers are essentially helping Coralville pay to build a new store, according to a new report. The owner of an average ...

Tackling TIF takes tasking toughness. Even the very words “Tax increment financing,” (TIF), turns the tongue in twisted tangles like some Seussical tongue twister, and to the uninitiated it can tie ...

FARGO – The parking lot northwest of U.S. Bank in the bustling heart of downtown is one of the area's least-valuable pieces of land and probably has been that way since the early 1980s when old ...

The Chelan Douglas Port District seems to want to barge ahead with the TIF District for the Malaga area. With a number of different agencies against this like Chelan County ...