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Tax Increment Financing 
and Economic Development

Uses, Structures, and Impact

 

Book published in 2001 examines the impacts of Tax Increment Financing.  

Edited by Ameritech Fellow Craig L. Johnson and Joyce Y. Man.

from the back cover:
A variety of policies, programs, and strategies have been designed to provide assistance, directly or indirectly, to businesses for the purpose of promoting economic development in a community. This book provides a comprehensive and detailed discussion of the uses, structures, and impacts of tax increment financing (TIF), one of the most widely used state and local economic development policies. Offering specific examples, cases, surveys, and empirical evidence, it addresses how TIF works, why TIF is adopted, and what impacts TIF has on local economic development.

includes chapters on:

bulletA Primer on Tax Increment Financing
bulletA Review of State Tax Increment Financing Laws
bulletNonproperty Tax Increment Programs for Economic Development: A Review of the Alternative Programs
bullet The Use of Debt in Tax Increment Financing
bulletDeterminants of the Municipal Decision to Adopt Tax Increment Financing
bullet Effects of Tax Increment Financing on Economic Development
bullet Tax Increment Financing and Fiscal Stress: The California Genesis
bullet The Impact of Tax Increment Financing on School Districts: An Indiana Case Study
bulletTax Increment Financing in Texas: Survey and Assessment
bullet Tax Increment Financing in Indiana
bullet Using TIF to Provide Affordable Housing: A Fiscal Impact Analysis of the King Park TIF District in Urbana, Illinois
bullet Are TIFs Being Misused to Alter Patterns of Residential Segregation? The Case of Addison and Chicago, Illinois
bullet The Use of Tax Increment Financing in Redeveloping Brownfields in Minnesota



Cover to Tax Increment Financing and Economic Development published in 2001 by the State University of New York Press.

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Part of the SUNY series in Public Administration