Business ClimateTax Exemption and Incentive Assistance:
High Quality Job Creation Program (HQJCP)
Offers a package of tax credits, exemptions, and/or refunds to businesses meeting criteria relating to targeted industries, employee benefits, and building specifications, among others.
Your Resource: IDED, 515-242-4700, www.iowalifechanging.com
Enterprise Zone Benefits
Local and state tax credits, refunds, and exemptions available for companies that expand or locate in designated Enterprise Zones. Requires capital investment and job creation, which must meet Enterprise Zone wage and benefit targets.
Your Resource: IDED, 515-242-4700, www.iowalifechanging.com
Tax Increment Financing (TIF)
City councils or county boards of supervisors may use property taxes resulting from the increase in taxable valuation caused by construction of new industrial or commercial facilities to provide economic development incentives to a business or industry.
Your Resource for information: IDED, 515-242-4700, www.iowalifechanging.com
Your Resource for application assistance: E.C.I.A. Business Growth, Inc.,
563-556-4166, www.ecia.org
Iowa Industrial Development Revenue Bond Program
Provides financing to new and expanding businesses through the sale of tax-exempt bonds.
Your Resource: IDED, 515-242-4700, www.iowalifechanging.com
Business Development Financial Assistance
Entrepreneurial Financial Assistance
Entrepreneurial Neighborhood Project
Infrastructure Financial Assistance
Small Business Financial Assistance
Venture and Seed Capital