Tax Notes Talk

Amazon HQ2 Incentives

January 26, 2018 Tax Notes
Tax Notes Talk
Amazon HQ2 Incentives
Show Notes
David Stewart talks to Lauren Loricchio about her effort to obtain through public records requests data from localities competing for Amazon’s second headquarters project. She found that the localities used various methods to avoid public disclosure of incentives offered to the company, including narrow interpretations of state open record laws and bids submitted through entities not subject to those laws.