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The dispute between solar energy finance companies and the state’s revenue department has reached court.
Published: Tuesday, October 1st, 2019 @ 9:19 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina life insurance customers may pay higher premiums unless the Cooper administration reverses course on renewable-energy tax credits.
Published: Monday, September 9th, 2019 @ 10:57 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Tax credits claimed by clients of Dan McCready’s solar investment company may be jeopardized by Gov. Roy Cooper’s Department of Revenue.
Published: Wednesday, August 21st, 2019 @ 10:32 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper, an advocate for renewable energy whose family leases land for solar farms, is denying tax credits for solar energy investments.
Published: Friday, August 9th, 2019 @ 2:14 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Benefit or boondoggle? That’s the billion-dollar question.
Published: Sunday, June 23rd, 2019 @ 7:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A bipartisan group of state representatives filed House Bill 751, resurrecting a 25 percent tax credit program.
Published: Friday, May 17th, 2019 @ 5:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Time Magazine’s Aug. 6 special issue focuses on the American South. One of the articles is about Georgia’s film production incentives, entitled “How Georgia Became the Hollywood of the South.”
Published: Tuesday, August 14th, 2018 @ 3:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina politicians and policy analysts have been arguing for decades about targeted economic incentives
Published: Wednesday, July 25th, 2018 @ 12:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The proposed new state budget would not expand the state’s overall film grant program this year
Published: Saturday, June 2nd, 2018 @ 12:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Rep. Chris Millis says the renewable energy industry hoodwinked North Carolina about the costs of giving special deals to renewable producers, which exploded from an initial projection of less than $5 million to $1.6 billion in payouts through 2016
Published: Friday, May 26th, 2017 @ 5:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's selection of Rep. Susi Hamilton as secretary of natural and cultural resources is emblematic of the philosophical contrast between Cooper and the GOP legislative majority, state Rep. Chris Millis said
Published: Tuesday, January 24th, 2017 @ 6:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The federal government issued tax credits in North Carolina approaching a half-billion dollars for renewable energy investment in the five most recent years for which records are available, and high-income earners have benefited the most from the tax favors
Published: Thursday, October 6th, 2016 @ 2:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Like a recovering addict on the verge of a major binge, some North Carolina lawmakers are on the brink of falling back into the black hole of tax credits
Published: Saturday, June 18th, 2016 @ 3:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory and Department of Natural and Cultural Resources Secretary Susan Kluttz celebrated the preservation of Historic Tax Credits (HTC) in North Carolina at an event in Burlington today. Restoring the HTC was a major element in Governor McCrory's legislative agenda that he detailed...
Published: Tuesday, October 27th, 2015 @ 11:51 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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While Duke Energy is passing higher costs to ratepayers because state law forces it to purchase renewable energy, the utility also claimed a whopping $62.8 million in tax write-offs in 2014 for its own investments in green power projects.
Published: Thursday, June 11th, 2015 @ 3:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Pat McCrory called on lawmakers to honor a promise to increase starting teacher salaries to $35,000 and included salary boosts for state troopers and corrections officers Thursday as he unveiled his $21.5 billion General Fund budget for the 2015-16 fiscal year.
Published: Wednesday, March 11th, 2015 @ 9:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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To make a long story short, the great debate in North Carolina politics concerns how state and local governments can best promote economic growth and opportunity. Opinions differ widely, as one might expect. But generally speaking, they can be grouped into three schools of thought that bear...
Published: Tuesday, April 22nd, 2014 @ 8:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In February, a North Carolina tax preparer of Hispanic descent told Carolina Journal that several tax preparers in her community help their clients commit federal income tax fraud by claiming tax credits for children who either do not exist or do not live in the United States.
Published: Saturday, March 8th, 2014 @ 8:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Momma always said you can learn more listening than you can speaking, so now that a judge has called a temporary halt to North Carolina's school voucher program let's spend time in listening to both sides of this issue. And the best way to get information is to ask questions.
Published: Saturday, March 1st, 2014 @ 5:01 am
By: Tom Campbell
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