Posts Tagged ‘tax credits’

Finance Fund Awarded $3 million in Ohio New Markets Tax Credits

Ohio Department of Development Director Lisa Patt-McDaniel today announced that $10 million in Ohio New Markets Tax Credits are being made available to four Ohio entities, including Finance Fund, to spur economic investments of at least $25.6 million across Ohio. The program helps finance business investments by providing state tax credits to investors for below-market-rate [...]

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

On October 7-8, 2010, key staff joined the Finance Fund board of directors  for a retreat held at the Clarence D. Lumpkin Point of Pride Building in Columbus. A Finance Fund New Markets Tax Credit  project in 2007, the location perfectly punctuated one of the overall retreat goals, which was to allow the board of [...]

Treasury Continues to Support NMTC Program

On February 19th I participated in a conference call in which senior Treasury officials provided remarks preceding a press release and fact sheet further supporting the inclusion of a New Markets Tax Credit program extension for 2010 & 2011 in the President’s proposed budget. “As part of the Administration’s strategy to restore prosperity and create [...]

$50 Million to Finance Fund : New Markets Tax Credits Announced Today

This is a pretty important day in the history of Finance Fund. We learned this morning that we have been awarded $50 million in New Markets Tax Credits from the CDFI Fund in the U.S. Department of Treasury. The funding will be used to offer low-interest financing for projects that revitalize both urban and rural low-income [...]

Ohio HB 1: A Proposed Ohio NMTC.

I think there is some credibility to the phrase “If you can manage to stay around long enough people mistakenly think you know what you’re talking about.” Last Thursday (April 2), at the invitation of the Hon. Armond Budish, Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, I testified at the Ohio House Finance and Appropriations Committee concerning the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) program.

Ohio House April 2, 2009 Testimony: New Markets Tax Credit

TESTIMONY BEFORE THE OHIO HOUSE FINANCE AND APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE
JAMES R. KLEIN, CEO, OHIO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FINANCE FUND
OHIO NEW MARKETS TAX CREDIT