The Wonderful World of TIF

City officials regard tax-increment financing as free money, when actually they are stealing it from other taxing entities. Nowhere is this more visible than with a special kind of tax-increment financing involving sales taxes. In Missouri, Colorado, and other states, private shopping malls and other retail districts can effectively assess their own sales tax, just like a government agency, and keep the money. Their patrons end up paying the tax but probably don’t realize it because taxes aren’t included in advertised prices.

Under Missouri law, a community improvement district can assess its own sales tax with the approval of all voters in the district. If there are no voters residing in the district, then a majority of property owners get to decide whether to assess the sales tax. Since other people will pay the sales tax while the property owners get the benefit, it’s an easy question.
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The inequity of this system was made clear when a group of property owners in Columbia, Missouri defined their district in a way that, they thought, excluded all voters. As it turned out, there was one voter, and when she examined the proposal, she realized that it “just didn’t seem to be as good as they were saying to me at first.” As a result, the district may not hold the election, at least until it can figure out a way to gerrymander the sole voter out of the district (or perhaps bribe her into supporting their scheme).

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The Antiplanner is a forester and economist with more than fifty years of experience critiquing government land-use and transportation plans.

4 Responses to The Wonderful World of TIF

  1. JOHN1000 says:

    The Columbia Missouri fiasco is such a wonderful story that it should be on the nightly news every night.

    But don’t count on it.

  2. prk166 says:

    Since Amazon is on board with sales taxes, does this mean they’ll eventually find a way to set these up for any of their operations in Missouri?

  3. Frank says:

    Speaking of Amazon, I hear they foot half the bill for all transit.

  4. metrosucks says:

    Especially ghost transit, which is hardly ever seen carrying a single passenger.

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