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Wayne County leaders request comprehensive review after Detroit Free Press flags tax-abatement issues
Summary
A Wayne County committee cited a Detroit Free Press story alleging missing cost-benefit analyses, destroyed records and disproportionate commercial rehabilitation exemptions totaling about $9.3 million for Detroit in FY2024 and requested a 12-year countywide report on abatements and incentives.
Chair (name not given in the transcript) told the Ways & Means Committee that a Detroit Free Press article published Nov. 21 raised multiple concerns about Michigan’s tax-abatement programs, including the absence of a state-required cost-benefit analysis, destroyed documents and a concentration of commercial rehabilitation exemptions. "...a disproportionate share of commercial re rehabilitation, exemptions, representing…
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