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Business Facilities’ 15th Annual Rankings: State Rankings Report

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Tennessee is proud to be a right-to-work state with no personal income tax on wages. North Carolina, Colorado and Virginia topped the chart in BF’s flagship Economic Growth Potential ranking. “Our 3 in our cyber growth potential ranking, has established an impressive array of cybersecurity R&D and innovation assets.

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SPECIAL REPORT: The Carolinas Are Bringing The Business

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Manufacturing continues to be a real wealth and job creator across South Carolina,” said Hitt. May was also a good month for North Carolina—the month it was announced that Cape Fear Arsenal Inc. The project was made possible in part by a performance-based grant from the One North Carolina Fund of up to $490,000.

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Location Focus: The Carolinas – Growth Climate Warms In The Carolinas

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In its inaugural round of innovation-related grants, the South Carolina Department of Commerce is awarding $2.4 As part of its efforts to support and grow an innovative, technology-based and entrepreneurial business environment, the Department of Commerce launched the state’s first Office of Innovation in the fall of 2013.

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Centers of Technology: The Future Is Now

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Locations are bringing higher ed resources and high-tech businesses together to plant the seeds for market-ready advanced technology at incubators and innovation institutes, and to create the STEM-savvy workforce that will fill these new jobs. Chicago is rising up in ranks to become the next big place for technology innovation.

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2012 Business Facilities Rankings Report

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With a diverse and well-executed economic development strategy, a workforce training program that sets the standard for the nation and a full menu of innovative incentives, Louisiana is marching forward on a path to prosperity,” Rogers said. billion in Federal individual income taxes, and $1.9 billion in state individual income taxes.

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State by State Incentives Guide

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Alabama Innovation Fund: As part of the implementation of Accelerate Alabama, this fund was created to maximize the use of the State’s economic development resources by leveraging annual research and development expenditures by Public Universities within the State to generate resources which can be used to support economic development initiatives.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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INCOME TAX CAPITAL CREDIT: Currently codified as Article 7, Chapter 18, Title 40, Code of Alabama 1975. It is a credit of five percent of the capital costs of a qualifying project, to be applied to the Alabama income tax liability or financial institution excise tax generated by the project income, each year for 20 years.

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