Tag Archives: tax break

Home Depot gets $2.2 million tax break for Cobb project

By Tom Crawford | Published: November 3, 2011

Cobb County development officials grant a $2.2 million tax break for retailing giant Home Depot in return for a promise to open a call center in Kennesaw . . .

It’s a cost of doing business

By Tom Crawford | Published: May 23, 2011

Delta Air Lines spent a lot of money last year on campaign contributions, but the legislative payoff was more than worth the expenditures . . .

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For this lawmaker, one bill will never die

By Tom Crawford | Published: May 12, 2011

The passage of legislation that will grant lucrative tax breaks to developers was an eye-opening experience for a freshman legislator . . .

Tags: developers , free market , Jason Spencer , Nathan Deal , tax break , Tea Party

House votes to extend tax break for Delta

By Tom Crawford | Published: March 16, 2011

House votes to extend a state sales tax exemption for Delta, after the airline reported large profits for 2010 . . .

Tags: Delta Air Lines , Georgia House , tax break

An old controversy bubbles up to the surface

By Tom Crawford | Published: December 16, 2009

The attempt by Republican members of the Georgia House to elect a new speaker and clean up the mess created by the Glenn Richardson scandal is dredging up another controversy from the recent past: the stealth maneuverings to give Gov. Sonny Perdue an undisclosed tax break that was worth $100,000 to the governor.

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