On PILOTs, CBAs, TIFs, and Other Corporate Welfare Programs
Presented by: Helen Burns Sharp
The Alstom wind-turbine plant on the west-side closed and left unpaid the City not-tax-but-PILOT bill of $13 million. GE has agreed now to pay $6 million of it. What’s going on? What’s happening to our corporate tax base?
Burns Sharp founded ‘Accountability for Taxpayer Money’ (ATM) ~ “We are a non-partisan public interest advocacy group who have studied tax breaks, especially PILOTs, and have suggestions for changes.”