{"id":4351,"date":"2012-02-07T11:52:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T17:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=4351"},"modified":"2012-12-20T10:07:59","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T16:07:59","slug":"on-the-hunt-for-corporate-oklahoma-expats-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/02\/07\/on-the-hunt-for-corporate-oklahoma-expats-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Hunt for Corporate Oklahoma Expats in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4354\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/relocation.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4354\" title=\"Retail relocation\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/relocation-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Oli Scarff \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<\/div><p>Oklahomans have been hearing variations on the same theme for <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2011\/10\/07\/oklahoma-vs-texas-a-red-river-rivalry-of-taxes\/\">more than a decade<\/a>:<\/p><p><strong>\u201cNo-income tax Texas gets all the business.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><p>The arguments: 1) corporations or businesses move from Oklahoma to Texas because it lacks an <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/02\/01\/ap-curbing-the-income-tax-a-fiscal-conservatives-dream-years-in-the-making\/\">income tax<\/a>, or, 2) corporate and business leaders relocating from other states choose Texas over Oklahoma because of income tax concerns.<\/p><p>We haven\u2019t found either \u2014 and we\u2019ve been asking around and looking for months.<\/p><p><!--more--><\/p><p>We\u2019ve asked top elected officials, economists, agency directors, think-tank academics and business leaders.<\/p><p>But we keep coming up empty.<\/p><p>There have been vague mentions of acquaintances and anecdotal, anonymous references, but nothing solid. And never any names.<\/p><p>There is a lot of migration from Oklahoma to Texas, census and IRS data show, but other factors complicate those statistics. Both are energy states, so there&#8217;s a lot of natural back-and-forth during routine business. Dallas itself is big, and serves as a hub for business and commerce throughout the region.<\/p><p>A state&#8217;s tax policy is a miniscule consideration when business leaders are considering a relocation, a half-dozen economists tell us.<\/p><p>But Department of Commerce officials swear having an income tax means Oklahoma isn&#8217;t even <em>invited<\/em> to the table when businesses go shopping for new locations.<\/p><p>More simply, Texas and Oklahoma share a big border.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">We Need Your Help:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>If you know of a company, business or corporation that has moved from Oklahoma to Texas because of that state\u2019s lack of an income tax: <strong>let us know<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If you know of a company, business or corporation that \u2014 while in the process of choosing a state to relocate to \u2014 discounted Oklahoma because of the income tax or other tax issues: <strong>let us know<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>If you know of a company, business or corporation that left Oklahoma for <em>any<\/em> other state because of the income tax or other tax issues: <strong>let us know<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul><p><a href=\"mailto:jwertz@stateimpact.org\">Email us<\/a>. Call us (405-325-3028). Leave a comment. Find us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/StateImpactOK\">Facebook<\/a> or send us a message <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/stateimpactok\">on Twitter<\/a> @StateImpactOK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahomans have been hearing variations on the same theme for more than a decade:\u201cNo-income tax Texas gets all the business.\u201dThe arguments: 1) corporations or businesses move from Oklahoma to Texas because it lacks an income tax, or, 2) corporate and business leaders relocating from other states choose Texas over Oklahoma because of income tax concerns.We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":4354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[492,301],"tags":[118],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4364,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351\/revisions\/4364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}