State Incentives
Known as the “Deal Closer”, this is a cash grant incentive offered to companies bringing in significant jobs and capital investment at a single site and competing with another out-of-state option. Click HERE for more information!
The Skills Development Fund is Texas’ premier job-training program providing local customized training opportunities for Texas businesses and workers to increase skill levels and wages of the Texas workforce. Click HERE for more information.
Texas sales and use tax exempts tangible personal property that becomes a component of a manufactured product for sale and taxable services used on a manufactured product to make it more marketable. Click HERE for more information.
A property tax exemption on pollution control equipment used wholly or partly for preventing, monitoring, controlling or reducing air, water or land pollution. Click HERE for more information.
A tool for local communities to partner with the State to promote job creation and capital investment in economically distressed areas. Click HERE for more information.
Harris County/Local Incentives
Texas Tax Code Chapter 312 grants local jurisdictions the ability to offer property tax exemptions to attract new industries and retain existing businesses that create new jobs and capital investment. Click HERE for more information.
Provides a property tax exemption on buildings constructed which achieve LEED Certification. Buildings are qualified by value and level of certification. Click HERE for more information.
A “Freeport Exemption” is when inventory and personal property detained in the State of Texas for the purposes of assembling, storing, manufacturing, fabricating and processing is eligible for exemption from ad valorem taxes as long as the property leaves the State within 175 days of being acquired or brought into Texas. In Northwest Harris County, Aldine ISD, Klein ISD and Spring ISD are qualifying taxing jurisdictions granting the exemption. To see the full list of jurisdictions in Harris County which offer the exemption, click here.
Click here to download the Harris County Appraisal District Freeport Exemption application.
Harris County is designated as a Foreign Trade Zone giving an importing/exporting company located in the County the ability to take advantage of duty and tariff savings. Click HERE for more information.
