Tax Increment Financing (TIF) is a public financial tool cities, towns, and counties use to stimulate development and redevelopment in specific areas. This mechanism allows for the reallocation of ...

Mayor Johnson’s record-setting $1 billion TIF surplus highlights issues and abuse of Chicago’s Tax Increment Financing ...

Cape Girardeau's Tax Increment Financing Commission established some rough guidelines Tuesday night on what could be paid for with TIF funds. Commissioner Al Stoverink came to the meeting with a list ...

Supporters say the ballot measure would add transparency and give residents more control over how their tax dollars are used.

The rail switch yard dated back to the 1880s and hosted some 50 jobs on a 25-acre plot of land — little more than two workers per acre, all told, occupying a handful of underutilized industrial ...

The Wood River City Council approved an ordinance during Monday's meeting to provide up to $400,000 in TIF funding for the ...

Mitchell County Auditor Lowell Tesch has part of a bookshelf in his office dedicated to Tax Increment Financing-related projects. Each project has its own three-ring binder. And by his own account, ...

The city Industrial Development Board on Monday approved the economic impact plan for $15 million in Tax Increment Financing (TIF) that CBL officials said is needed to save "failing" Northgate Mall.

The Nebraska State Auditor's Office is located in the State Capitol. (Paul Hammel/Nebraska Examiner) LINCOLN — The City of Auburn has returned $658,003 to the public coffers after a state auditor team ...

Chicago Board of Education President Sean Harden has challenged the district’s new proposed budget, expressing doubts about its heavy reliance on revenue from special taxing districts to close a $734 ...

Hamilton County will no longer participate in a plan to revive Northgate Mall.That's after a Chattanooga official says she ...