{"id":1326,"date":"2011-11-01T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=1326"},"modified":"2011-11-23T09:56:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T16:56:06","slug":"idaho-tax-incentives-whats-the-tradeoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2011\/11\/01\/idaho-tax-incentives-whats-the-tradeoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho Tax Incentives: What&#8217;s the Tradeoff?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/commerce.idaho.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Idaho Department of Commerce homepage<\/a> makes no bones about it. They want to recruit new businesses to the Gem State and encourage existing companies to expand by offering a slew of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commerce.idaho.gov\/business\/incentives-\/\" target=\"_blank\">tax credits and incentives <\/a>to make it happen.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1328\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/10\/CommerceWebsite.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1328\" title=\"CommerceWebsite\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/10\/CommerceWebsite-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/10\/CommerceWebsite-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/10\/CommerceWebsite-620x485.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/10\/CommerceWebsite-220x172.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/10\/CommerceWebsite.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Idaho Department of Commerce<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Commerce Department&#8217;s website lists 18 different business incentive programs.\u00a0 Many of them are broad and open to any industry.\u00a0 Some are very specific, like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmidaho.org\/incentives.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Idaho Film Incentives<\/a>, which offers discounted lodging and sales tax rebates for media production companies, among other things.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll look at some of Idaho&#8217;s most popular tax incentive programs over the next few days and try to answer a few questions.\u00a0 How do they work?\u00a0 Who uses them?\u00a0 What&#8217;s the tradeoff that the state is choosing to make when it forgoes tax revenue to spur investment? <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>And, we want to hear from you.\u00a0 Does your business use tax credits to grow?\u00a0 Are you skeptical of the growth touted through incentives? Share your thoughts throughout the week in the comment thread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Idaho Department of Commerce homepage makes no bones about it. They want to recruit new businesses to the Gem State and encourage existing companies to expand by offering a slew of tax credits and incentives to make it happen. The Commerce Department&#8217;s website lists 18 different business incentive programs.\u00a0 Many of them are broad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":1328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[94,102,42],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2248,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions\/2248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}