Kansas and Arkansas are not big on subsidy transparency, but they are now represented for the first time in Good Jobs First’s
Subsidy Tracker database
. Using open records requests, we obtained data on nine corporate tax credit programs in Arkansas and two training programs in Kansas. This leaves only three states—Mississippi, Nevada and South Carolina—with no data in Subsidy Tracker. We are trying to obtain unpublished data from them as well.
The Kansas and Arkansas additions are part of the latest expansion of Subsidy Tracker: 20 new programs from a total of seven states. One of those states is Oregon, which recently began to
post
information on corporate tax credits pursuant to legislation enacted last year as the result of efforts by groups such as OSPIRG.
Subsidy Tracker now has more than 118,000 entries from 298 programs in 47 states and the District of Columbia. Below is a list of the latest programs added to the database.
Arizona: Arizona Competes Fund
Arkansas: Advantage Arkansas Income Tax Credits
Arkansas: ArkPlus Income Tax Credit
Arkansas: Create Rebate Program
Arkansas: Economic Investment Tax Credit
Arkansas: InvestArk Sales and Use Tax Credits
Arkansas: Sales and Use Tax Refund for Targeted Business
Arkansas: Targeted Business In-House Research Credits
Arkansas: Targeted Business Payroll Credits
Arkansas: TaxBack Sales and Use Tax Refunds
Kansas: Kansas Industrial Retraining
Kansas: Kansas Industrial Training
New Mexico: Film Investment Program
North Carolina: Industrial Development Fund
North Carolina: Job Maintenance and Capital Development Fund
North Carolina: Site Infrastructure Development Fund
Oregon: Employer Workforce Training Fund
Oregon: Greenlight Oregon Labor Rebate
Oregon: Oregon Investment Advantage Program
Rhode Island: Comprehensive Workforce Training Grants