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Mills County to draft formal tax-abatement guidelines before considering reinvestment zones
Summary
Christopher Allen, a consultant to Mills County, told commissioners the county needs new, two‑year tax‑abatement guidelines and a detailed applicant form before it can consider abatements or designate a reinvestment zone under Chapter 312 of the Texas Tax Code.
Christopher Allen, a consultant who has worked with Mills County on abatements, told the Commissioners Court that the county needs updated guidelines and criteria before voting on any tax abatements under Chapter 312 of the Texas Tax Code.
Allen said the guidelines give the court a minimum threshold for evaluating requests and noted an existing draft contains a common $10,000,000 threshold and a proposed job-creation requirement. “They’re only good for 2 years,” Allen said of previous guidelines, and he added that guidelines, by design, “don’t reduce your discretion with, tax abatements. They don't cause you to have to enter tax abatements.”
The court heard Allen recommend that Mills County adopt a detailed application form to collect consistent information from applicants and to consider adding explicit requirements for…
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