Tax Breaks for Ecommerce Businesses: Oregon's Enterprise Zones

[mandy]

For anyone who doesn’t think ecommerce is a viable part of the world economy and plays a role in job creation and tax base expansion, here’s a flash: Ecommerce businesses are now eligible, at least in Oregon, for special tax incentives when they locate in enterprise zones, which are areas geographic areas targeted for economic revitalizing.

Tax incentives for retention or relocation of a company have long been the plum held out by cities, counties and states to brick and mortar manufacturing sorts of companies...

But Oregon, with legislation passed in 2001, welcomed the ecommerce industry into the fold with added incentives, on top of the breaks for just being part of those already offered for non-ecommerce industry...

full article: http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articl...s-A-Break/