2014: A Landmark Year for Subsidy Accountability
Two-thousand fourteen was a banner year for our movement, hands down. The first move to require standardized subsidy-cost reporting! The first half of a legally-binding two-state cease fire deal! The first state ban on tax-break commissions! A big surge found in state disclosure of subsidies! Big improvements to our Subsidy Tracker, enabling first-ever mash-ups!
2014: A Landmark Year for Subsidy Accountability
Two-thousand fourteen was a banner year for our movement, hands down. The first move to require standardized subsidy-cost reporting! The first half of a legally-binding two-state cease fire deal! The first state ban on tax-break commissions! A big surge found in state disclosure of subsidies! Big improvements to our Subsidy Tracker, enabling first-ever mash-ups!
GJF's Analysis of GASB's Proposed Standard for Tax Abatement Disclosures
For Immediate Release October 31, 2014
Contact: Greg LeRoy 202-232-1616 x 211
Good Jobs First Releases Analysis of GASB’s Proposed Standard for Tax Abatement Disclosures
GASB Finally Prepares to Step Up! And Who is GASB, You Ask?
For many years, we at Good Jobs First have criticized GASB—the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, or “GAZ-bee”— for failing to require state and local governments to disclose economic development subsidy spending in a uniform way.
It appears that’s finally about to change, and if it does, it will be hard to overstate the significance of the news.
GASB Finally Prepares to Step Up! And Who is GASB, You Ask?
For many years, we at Good Jobs First have criticized GASB—the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, or “GAZ-bee”— for failing to require state and local governments to disclose economic development subsidy spending in a uniform way.
It appears that’s finally about to change, and if it does, it will be hard to overstate the significance of the news.