Discover four key economic concepts: scarcity, supply and demand, costs and benefits, and incentives. Learn how they affect consumer choices and financial decisions.

In the latest Tax Notes Talk episode, Josh Goodman of the Pew Charitable Trusts talks about the organization’s recent report on how states can direct economic development to people and places in need.

Tax incentives are one of the most controversial tools in the economic development tool kit. Proponents, including economic development officials, business leaders, developers and industry executives, ...

Last week’s tax incentive package that would keep Nissan Motor Co.’s regional headquarters and its 1,300 jobs in the L.A. area was the latest proposal aimed at retaining key businesses and industries.

This report from the Pew Center on the States shows that policy makers often create tax credits, deductions, and exemptions without reliable cost estimates and annual cost controls. Even in tight ...

Experts have slowly gravitated toward the benefits of broad-based incentives instead of luring specific companies with expensive incentive packages. But what do the hard numbers say? Tech giant Amazon ...

Vietnamese automaker VinFast announced in March 2022 that it would open an electric vehicle assembly plant in North Carolina. The battery manufacturing plant will be built in Chatham County and is ...

City of Martensville councillors passed all three readings during their January 27 meeting on a new economic development incentive bylaw, which updates some of the language from the previous bylaw and ...