Economic Development Program Incentives:
Examples of Programs Offered by Economic Development Organizations

Contents

• Information Resources
• Examples of Incentive Programs

Information Resources

• Developing an Economic Development Incentive Policy () - GFOA Recommended Practices  (2008)(CEDCP) - Government Finance Officers Association
• Economic Development Accountability Laws, by  Steve Lerch, Washington State Institute for Public Policy, January 2004
• Economic Development Incentives: Research Approaches and Current Views (), prepared by Dan Gorin,  Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 94, October 2008
• Eight Issues for Policy Toward Economic Development Incentives, Timothy J. Bartik,  Banking and Policy Issues Magazine, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, June 1996  
• Evaluating Business Development Incentives (), prepared by the National Association of State Development Agencies, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, and The Urban Center, Cleveland State University for EDA, EDA Project #99-07-13794, 1999
• Promises, Promises - Will They Still Love You Tomorrow? () by Kathleen McMahon. AICP, Applied Communications, 2005
• Washington State
  • Incentives for Business - Choose Washington - Washington State Department of Commerce
  • Tax Incentives: Incentive Programs: Business Deferrals, Exemptions and Credits - Washington State Department of Revenue (List of Incentives)

Examples of Incentive Programs

• Cowlitz Economic Development Council - Targeted Tax Incentives
• Grays Harbor EDC - Grays Harbor Relocation Incentives
• King County - Business Finance Programs
• Klickitat County Port District - Business Incentives In Klickitat County
• Lewis County EDC - Incentives
• Mason County EDC - Incentives
• Snohomish (City) 
  • “Build Snohomish” Economic Incentives Target Private Development Capital,  Foster Pepper Newsroom News Alerts, April 26, 2011
  • Snohomish Resolution No. 1272 () - Authorizing economic incentives for long term capital investment, passed 04/19/11
• Skamania Economic Development Council - Incentives
• Tacoma Business Assistance Incentives
• Tacoma-Pierce County Economic Development Board (EDB) - Tax Initiatives
• Yakima County Development Association - Incentives

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Economic Development Program Incentives Related MRSC Resources
MRSC Index – Inducements to economic development, incentives, tax policy