Reno OKs tax breaks for Apple project

Yahoo ^ | 6/27/12 | Associated Press

[mdittmar]

(AP) — The Reno City Council on Wednesday unanimously approved tax breaks to coax Apple Inc. to open two facilities in northern Nevada as part of a $1 billion investment over 10 years.

The City Council agreed to the city's portion of a deal that includes $89 million in county, city and state tax abatements. Analysts say that's a 79 percent reduction in Apple's tax burden.

The Cupertino, Calif., company said it will build a 350-acre data center east of Sparks to house servers for its cloud computing service, and a business and purchasing center in Reno's Tessera District, a blighted area on the northeastern side of downtown.

[mdittmar]

To Nevada Senator Harry Reid,you must stop this,this will bring jobs,they are the rich,the 1%.

harry,shut it down!

[mriguy67]

So lower taxes help draw jobs and money? what a concept

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Stop making the machines in China.

And I’ll be impressed.

[roadcat]

Stop making the machines in China.

Apple isn't alone, most manufacturers are having their components built in China. It's a overtaxed and over-regulation problem. Kudos to Apple for at least building some infrastructure here in the states, like North Carolina, Texas, Nevada and Oregon. As well as in California where they're building a huge new campus, only because that's where they have roots.

I just flew back from Austin, Texas where they build the A5 CPU for their IOS devices.

[Swordmaker]

Apple to build data center in Reno... city approves tax benefits—PING!

Apple expands into Nevada Ping!

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[tennmountainman]

Looks like Apple wised up and is moving this center out
of Bankrupt CA to NV.

[roadcat]

Looks like Apple wised up and is moving this center out of Bankrupt CA to NV.

I believe it's a new additional facility, not anything replacing a California center. Indeed, they're building a huge facility in their hometown of Cupertino, California to replace the older campus.

[roadcat]

Here’s a link to pictures of the new California campus they’re building:

http://www.technobuffalo.com/companies/apple/apples-new-cupertino-campus-in-pictures/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

At least one U.S. company is building and hiring in the U.S.A., despite all the overregulation and taxes.

[roadcat]

Indeed, they're building a huge facility in their hometown of Cupertino, California to replace the older campus.

Whoops, I meant to say in addition to their older campus. The new facility will not replace theIr older headquarters.

[gortklattu]

I think that Sparks, Nevada was designed to be a tax-free warehouse haven. That was back in the 70’s.

[TheBattman]

Tell that to the component manufacturers - they are made in China. Apple doesn’t make hard drives, circuit boards, capacitors, memory, etc. Component makers do - if they were made here, then it would make a lot more sense to assemble Apple computers here in the USA.

But with unions, taxes, Obamanomics, etc. - a machine that currently costs $1199 would cost $6,999! (in other words - the component costs would be more than the current retail price).