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Attracting Amazon: Company has garnered billions of dollars in government incentives nationwide

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Some Florida communities have used incentives to sweeten the pot to attract Amazon. Do they really need to?

Former Florida Gov. Rick Scott — who made job creation a top priority while in office — initially rejected state incentives to lure Amazon’s first major fulfillment centers to the state back in 2013.

Florida’s economic development portal shows that Amazon got $744,000 in state incentives for that project through a now-defunct Qualified Target Industry — or QTI — tax refund program. The deal includes a package of property tax, sales tax and mortgage recording tax exemptions for Amazon, which is building the Niagara facility as a center for coordinating distribution of products to smaller centers for ultimate delivery to customers.

Greg LeRoy. executive director of Good Jobs First, submitted testimony to the Niagara County Industrial Development Agency critical of the Amazon grant and the agency’s cost-benefit study. The Good Jobs First Amazon incentives tracker lists the Niagara County tax break to Amazon as the sixth-largest ever provided to the company. The top 5 are:Markham, Cook County, Illinois: $322 million for a distribution center project.Hermison, Umatilla County, Oregon: $176 million for five data centers.Attracting Amazon:Earlier this year, New York State Sen.

 

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