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Analysis: Impact of property tax break changes still unclear

Source: timesunion.com - Aug 21, 2017

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — More than a year ago, Gov. John Bel Edwards enacted a sweeping set of changes to a 70-year-old lucrative property tax break program for manufacturing facilities in Louisiana, which had been criticized as rubber-stamped giveaways with too few strings attached.

The rewrite was aimed at steering the incentive to facilities that will create jobs and that are backed by local communities.

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