{"id":151,"date":"2009-06-01T07:08:41","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T13:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ny-offices.com\/nycity\/?p=151"},"modified":"2015-04-01T21:59:37","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T03:59:37","slug":"new-york-empire-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ny-offices.com\/nycity\/new-york-empire-zones\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York State Empire Zones Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are eleven Empire zones in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ny-offices.com\/\">New York City<\/a> that are offered benefits and incentives to expand commercial, retail and industrial companies. These are The Bronx (Port Morris and Hunts Point), Manhattan (East Harlem and Chinatown), Staten Island (West Shore and North), Brooklyn (Southwest Brooklyn, East Brooklyn, North Brooklyn\/ Brooklyn Navy Yard) and Queens (South Jamaica and Far Rockaway).<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFor companies to be eligible they need to increase or maintain employment in the Empire Zone and in the State of New York for a qualifying period and must also be certified by New York State.<\/p>\n<p>Companies and firms that are eligible can benefit from:<br \/>\n\u2022    QEZE Real Property Tax Credit<br \/>\n\u2022    QEZE Sales Tax Exemption<br \/>\n\u2022    QEZE Tax Reduction Credit<\/p>\n<p>Along with:<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wage Tax Credits<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Employment Incentive Credits<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Investment Tax Credits<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sales Tax Refunds<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Utility Discounts<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Zone Capital Credits<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Statewide Zone Capital Credit Corporation Loans<\/p>\n<p>For more information or to contact a Zone Administrator please go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tax.state.ny.us\/sbc\/empire_zone.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">New York State Department of Taxation and Finance<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are eleven Empire zones in New York City that are offered benefits and incentives to expand commercial, retail and industrial companies. These are The Bronx (Port Morris and Hunts Point), Manhattan (East Harlem and Chinatown), Staten Island (West Shore and North), Brooklyn (Southwest Brooklyn, East Brooklyn, North Brooklyn\/ Brooklyn Navy Yard) and Queens (South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york-work-environment","category-office-life","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ny-offices.com\/nycity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ny-offices.com\/nycity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ny-offices.com\/nycity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ny-offices.com\/nycity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ny-offices.com\/nycity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ny-offices.com\/nycity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"https:\/\/www.ny-offices.com\/nycity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ny-offices.com\/nycity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ny-offices.com\/nycity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ny-offices.com\/nycity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}