How to Use enterprise zone in a Sentence

enterprise zone

noun

• The enterprise zone tax credit is a 10-year program that phases out over time.
  — Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 20 July 2022
• In 2017, this area was added to a city enterprise zone, which gives companies property-tax exemptions for up to five years.
  — oregonlive, 20 Nov. 2022
• Some of the site sits in a tax-advantaged enterprise zone, which means the city would temporarily lose out on property tax income.
  — Anna Marum, OregonLive.com, 4 Nov. 2017
• However, in 2016 the Hillsboro City Council made changes to its enterprise zone program that ties the tax benefits to job creation.
  — Mike Rogoway, OregonLive.com, 28 May 2018
• An argument is made by some in the legislature that projects such as this would happen without the inducement of an enterprise zone to spark its growth.
  — Richard Greene, star-telegram, 1 June 2018
• The Gulch is considered as a potential enterprise zone.
  — J. Scott Trubey, ajc, 21 June 2018
• City officials redrew Baltimore’s enterprise zone map this year, and the state approved the changes earlier this month.
  — Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 20 July 2022
• The value of those enterprise zone tax breaks depends on what companies spend to develop a property.
  — Mike Rogoway, oregonlive, 15 Dec. 2020
• Morefield has seen nothing but failure from the usual efforts to help — the enterprise zones that never seem to land a big company, the employment training programs that don’t lead to good jobs.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2018
• Half of the loan and grant program funds come from a pot of $3 million the Portland City Council reallocated last Wednesday from the city’s reserves and the other half from the city’s enterprise zone tax abatement program.
  — oregonlive, 30 Mar. 2020
• Data centers now account for roughly three-quarters of all the tax breaks granted through Oregon’s enterprise zone program.
  — oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2022
• Oregon used to limit the number of enterprise zones – the agreements that exempt businesses from local property taxes – to just 30 statewide.
  — Mike Rogoway, oregonlive, 25 Oct. 2019
• Brown did not respond to requests for comment, but his aides have defended the administration’s handling of the enterprise zone program.
  — Desperation Town, ProPublica, 5 June 2020
• Aggarwal said the state made the land beneath his plant an enterprise zone, which eliminates sales tax on construction materials for the building.
  — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2021
• The factory is in an enterprise zone, meaning at least some of De Beers' investment will be exempt from the local property taxes other businesses pay.
  — Mike Rogoway, OregonLive.com, 31 May 2018
• Our overall view of the evidence is that state enterprise zone programs have generally not been effective at creating jobs.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 20 Dec. 2018
• One district designated the land around Sears as a state enterprise zone, which provided millions of dollars in tax breaks on sales, construction materials and the cost of utilities.
  — At A Great Price, ProPublica, 15 May 2020
• Businesses in the enterprise zone are given property tax credits for 10 years based on capital improvements and job creation.
  — Erika Butler, baltimoresun.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• The incentives come from two state programs that exempt them from the property taxes other businesses pay – the enterprise zone and strategic investment programs.
  — oregonlive, 6 Sep. 2022
• Some advocates, however, are calling on lawmakers to go further by tightening the rules around the enterprise zone agreements themselves.
  — Desperation Town, ProPublica, 5 June 2020
• Hitachi’s new facility is in a Hillsboro enterprise zone, though, which could exempt it from local property taxes.
  — oregonlive, 10 June 2021
• Officials in both counties say the company has used the enterprise zone program to negotiate bigger tax breaks by playing each county off one another.
  — oregonlive, 15 Dec. 2022
• Oregon's big draw for data centers is the absence of a state sales tax, which saves companies hundreds of millions of dollars on those servers, and a property tax exemption under Oregon's enterprise zone program that's worth even more.
  — Mike Rogoway, OregonLive.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• State law required the Otay Water District to make the shuttered golf course available to government entities that could use it to build affordable housing, schools, parks, transit developments or an enterprise zone.
  — Gustavo Solis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2019
• Abatement numbers are city estimates, calculated at the outset of each enterprise zone agreement.
  — Desperation Town, ProPublica, 12 May 2020
• House Bill 13 would extend the state’s enterprise zone payroll subsidy program for new hires, which is set to expire next year, and allow restaurants, bars and retail trade businesses with 50 or fewer employees to participate.
  — David Jacobs, Washington Examiner, 29 June 2020
• Across Oregon, companies receive more than $120 million in enterprise zone tax breaks annually, according to the most recent state data.
  — Mike Rogoway, oregonlive, 25 Oct. 2019
• All four buyers played roles in clearing the way for Amazon’s operations in the small eastern Oregon community, either by approving land sales to the company, approving its enterprise zone tax breaks, or both.
  — Mike Rogoway | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2022
• Last fall, lawmakers and Walker passed for Foxconn a one-time expansion of the state's enterprise zone program, which requires companies to demonstrate investments and job creation before getting state tax credits.
  — Jason Stein, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Feb. 2018
• Barbara Bush said her husband had proposed capital gains tax cuts, economic enterprise zones, and the use of individual retirement accounts to help struggling Americans buy homes — to no avail.
  — Felice Belman, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024