Latest Raimondo COVID order protects business incentives
With attention focused on whether gyms and other small businesses would be allowed to reopen, Gov. Gina Raimondo last week moved to preserve corporate job-creation incentives in danger of disappearing during the COVID-19 pandemic. In an executive order signed Wednesday, Raimondo suspended deadlines for companies to report promised hiring and claim tax credits under the Qualified Jobs Incentive Program, one of the state's primary lures to get businesses to move here or expand. Nearly 40 companies have been approved for tax credits under the program since lawmakers created it in 2015....
Source: providencejournal.com