tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30130444.post6014025061598941085..comments2024-02-16T09:00:32.845-06:00Comments on FromDC2Iowa: Brother, Can You Spare a TIF?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30130444.post-14232349690584033012011-05-10T01:33:45.569-05:002011-05-10T01:33:45.569-05:00The trick is this, short term TIF should work and ...The trick is this, short term TIF should work and work well, however, once a TIF has been designated it seems to never go away. Once all the money has been invested in a property to make it a better paying tax entity, it seems to sit, playing all the tax increases on investment surrounding the TIF. If the TIF district grows, then all the rest of the TIF district continues to live on with property tax values frozen in time for all parts of the district. Downtown Cedar Rapids is on huge TIF. Yet people wonder why voters reject spending even more money from a sales tax to protect areas that have for over 25 years had tax money to improve their locations.Eventually someone has to pay the bills, and those outside of the TIF are getting TIFed off.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30130444.post-83935070431908034402011-04-25T16:51:09.567-05:002011-04-25T16:51:09.567-05:00TIF districts have been used long enough in Johnso...TIF districts have been used long enough in Johnson County so that it should be possible to evaluate how well they work.John Neffnoreply@blogger.com