The Michigan Legislature passed bills on Tuesday overhauling the state’s tax incentives for big businesses, creating a $1 billion pot for land development by big job-creators. The immediate aim: landing a $2.5 billion General Motors battery plant in Lansing.
The bills (S.B. 85, S.B. 769, S.B. 770 and S.B. 771) collectively create a Legislature-controlled Strategic Outreach and Attraction Reserve Fund into which lawmakers could dump part of Michigan’s budget surplus for grants and other incentives for large commercial development projects.
Passage came ...