Nebraska data center tax break leaps forward

DatacenterDynamics (Feb 9 2012)

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   One of two incentive bills Nebraska lawmakers introduced hurriedly to lure a US$1.2bn data center construction project by an unnamed company took a swift leap ahead Thursday, after the state’s unicameral (one house) legislature voted unanimously to advance it, Omaha World-Herald reported. The bill – whose language was for the first time debated by the full legislature Thursday – would extend to large (US$300m-plus) data centers the state’s standing law that allows projects of certain size to get sales- and use-tax refunds, be exempt from property tax and get state refunds on local property taxes on IT hardware and software.

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