Posts Tagged Tax Expenditure Budgets
Oct
7
2014
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.
May
19
2011
States Shine More Light on Tax Spending
Sep
25
2010
New York City Industrial Development Agency Establishes Landmark Transparency Reforms
This week New York City leapt to the front of the transparency pack with reforms to its Industrial Development Agency (IDA) that will improve taxpayer awareness of and participation in proposed economic development deals.