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The Economic Development Circus
Credit Houston Chronicle Business Reporter Loren Steffy with coining a brilliant phrase, "the economic development circus", in a brilliantly perceptive piece starring the Astros, Rockets, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, and ... -
1986 Tax Reform and Stadium Finance
At the Chicago Tribune, Ameet Sachdev discusses the Ricketts family's petition to issue tax exempt bonds for renovations at Wrigley Field. Most of the story is an account of standard ... -
Taxing Away the Stars
From today's FT.com: Britain is driving away international sports stars and missing opportunities to host lucrative sporting events because of a tax practice that nets the exchequer a paltry £7m ... -
Sports stimulus?
Here's a report from McHenry County, Illinois, on plans to apply for Federal Stimulus funding to support construction of a minor league ballpark. The county has received authority to issue ... -
How sports agents earn their money
I told Matt Lindsay this morning that I could hear the hammers at work building tax shelters overseas. Frank Stephenson at Division of Labor links to a piece which indicates ...
