Posts Tagged Federal Subsidies
Mar
16
2021
Sunshine Week: Lack of transparency and accountability casts shadow over Opportunity Zones
The idea behind the Opportunity Zones is to persuade individuals and corporations to invest their capital gains in projects in poor neighborhoods. In return, those investors receive lucrative federal tax breaks. No matter what one might think about this underlying idea of OZs, the execution and administration of the program has fallen short. Their pervasive lack of transparency and accountability is largely to blame.