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The Equity Impacts of Municipal Tax Incentives: Leveling or Tilting the Playing Field?

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  • Laura A. Reese
  • Gary Sands

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The widespread use over the past two decades of Michigan's PA 198 Industrial Tax Abatement program provides an opportunity to assess the inter‐urban equity impacts of this economic development tool. Not only has PA 198 been used relatively more often by suburban municipalities, local governments at the metropolitan periphery are more likely to use abatements to attract new plants and new jobs. The older central cities primarily use the program to retain existing jobs, albeit at high cost of lost tax revenues. On balance, it appears that PA 198 has done little to alter the location decisions of participating firms.

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  • Laura A. Reese & Gary Sands, 2006. "The Equity Impacts of Municipal Tax Incentives: Leveling or Tilting the Playing Field?," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 23(1), pages 71-94, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:revpol:v:23:y:2006:i:1:p:71-94
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2006.00186.x
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    1. Tanner CONNORS & Laura A. REESE & Mark SKIDMORE, 2020. "The Ruralization Of Detroit? Implications For Economic Redevelopment Policy," Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management, Research Centre in Public Administration and Public Services, Bucharest, Romania, vol. 15(3), pages 29-48, August.
    2. Laura A. Reese & Minting Ye, 2011. "Policy Versus Place Luck: Achieving Local Economic Prosperity," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 25(3), pages 221-236, August.
    3. Christine Wen, 2024. "Do Economic Development Tax Abatements Affect School Finances?," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 38(1), pages 3-14, February.

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