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To revitalize a state suffering from the economic and personal hardships wrought by the COVID pandemic, New Jersey Governor Murphy signed into law on Jan. 7, 2021, the New Jersey Economic Recovery Act of 2020. The Act adopts a series of incentives to both encourage businesses to settle in New Jersey and prevent Garden State businesses from fleeing to greener pastures elsewhere. Many of these programs will be administered by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (“Authority”).
The new Emerge Program provides tax credits to encourage economic development, job creation and the retention of significant numbers of jobs in imminent danger of leaving the state. The program will target businesses that build, acquire or lease space in the state with plans to create or retain full-time jobs.
HAMILTON (Mercer) Gov. Phil Murphy enacted a law Thursday authorizing nearly $14.5 billion in tax breaks, loans and grants for businesses, part of a long-stalled economic plan he says will support “thousands of good jobs.”
Murphy signed the law in a ceremony outside Carella’s Chocolates & Gifts in Hamilton to highlight that the wide-ranging plan includes $50 million for a Main Street Recovery Finance program providing grants, loans and loan guarantees to small businesses.
“After all, incentives are set aside only for big corporations, right? Well starting today, that could not be more wrong. That’s the old way of thinking. That doesn’t mean that it won’t apply necessarily to big corporations, but the days when it only applied to big ones are over,” Murphy said.
On December 21, 2020, the New Jersey Legislature passed the “
New Jersey Economic Recovery Act of 2020” (the “Economic Recovery Act” or the Act ), an omnibus piece of legislation which provides support for various programs and policies related to jobs, property development, food deserts, community partnerships, and small and early-stage businesses, among others. The bill now heads to Governor Murphy, who is expected to sign it into law.
In an effort to bolster development, the Economic Recovery Act creates, among other things, various tax credit programs which will provide qualifying taxpayers with tax credits for project financing gaps for: (i) qualified redevelopment projects, (ii) rehabilitating qualified historic New Jersey properties, (iii) remediation costs for qualified brownfield redevelopment projects, and (iv) establishing and retaining new supermarkets and grocery stores in food desert communities.
UpdatedThu, Dec 24, 2020 at 10:13 am ET
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(Jose F. Moreno, Staff Photographer / The Philadelphia Inquirer)
NEW JERSEY As businesses continue to struggle and many find it hard to make ends meet, Gov. Phil Murphy is set to sign a massive, $14 billion corporate tax-break bill into law that s supposed to give New Jersey a big boost amid the COVID-19 crisis.
The more than 100-page New Jersey Economic Recovery Act of 2020 introduced last Wednesday received criticism for its limited public testimony. But Murphy defended the proposal in Monday s coronavirus news conference, saying the bill would update economic-development incentive programs that expired more than a year ago.
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Pintor Marin, Coughlin on Comprehensive Economic Recovery Plan and Tax Incentive Reform Legislation, Measure Clears Legislature, Goes to Governor December 21, 2020, 2:34 pm | in
Pintor Marin, Coughlin on Comprehensive Economic Recovery Plan and Tax Incentive Reform Legislation, Measure Clears Legislature, Goes to Governor
Bill Receives Strong Bipartisan Support in Assembly & Senate
(Trenton) – Supporting small businesses, driving sustainable economic growth, and the long-overdue reform of our tax incentives system the legislation sponsored by Assembly Budget Chair Eliana Pintor Marin and Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin to put New Jersey on a path to economic recovery post-COVID-19 and into the future cleared the full Legislature on Monday.