Tax Incentives Consultants provides comprehensive site selection and tax credit syndication services. We are an experienced consulting practice with a Big-Four accounting firm business consulting heritage. We offer our services using strong national, regional and local expertise; proven technical skills; finely-honed negotiating skills; and experience in serving diverse industries and companies both large and small. Our professionals have served a wide variety of clients, from the smallest start-ups to some of the largest Fortune 500 multinationals, in locations nationwide. We have been successful in politically sensitive situations, where state and local governments are balancing the need to be business friendly while managing tight budgets and political constraints. In these cases, we have developed winning strategies that benefit both clients and the state and local jurisdictions.
Our team includes professionals with accounting, legal, and government relations backgrounds and offers extensive experience managing complex, multi-phased projects and negotiating successful results for our clients. Our team has extensive project management experience and have developed work plans, databases, and technical research to aide our clients.
We stay with our clients through every step of the process. Our goal is to make sure that our clients achieve their desired RESULTS. Whether that is achieving the greatest possible value of statutory and negotiated tax and economic incentives or realizing the cost reduction opportunities through the sale or purchase of tax credits or restructuring planning.
SUMMARY BACKGROUNDS:
Craig Fisher:
Craig has over twenty years of experience providing economic development and state and local tax services to companies. He has provided these services to manufacturers, media companies, pharmaceutical companies and retailers. Craig has assisted clients in negotiating and obtaining favorable tax and economic incentives related to relocation or expansion plans. He has guided clients through the process of acquiring transferable tax credits to reduce their state tax burden. He has also led teams in the design and delivery of strategic business restructuring projects which have benefited his clients by reducing their overall operating costs and their state tax liability. Additionally, Craig has extensive experience with consulting on income/franchise tax, sales and use tax and unclaimed property issues for his clients and managing state tax audits. Craig has spoken on a wide variety of state and local tax topics including the impact of state legislative changes, state and local incentive programs, unclaimed property, income/franchise tax issues, and sales and use tax issues.
Scot Butcher:
Scot is recognized as one of the nation’s leading business incentives and public finance professionals. He brings more than 20 years of experience in site selection, business incentives, tax planning and finance to the firm and has served both in government and non-government consulting roles. Scot’s additional experience includes consulting with economic development agencies to improve states’ competitiveness. He has designed economic development programs for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and State of Rhode Island and has testified before state and federal agencies and Congressional committees. Before beginning his career in incentives advisory and location consulting, Scot managed the Massachusetts State Revolving Loan Fund, financing more than $1 billion in infrastructure projects.
Lee Higgins:
Lee has more than 12 years of experience as a negotiated and statutory incentive professional. He is very effective in regards to managing projects around the often sensitive political environment surrounding incentive negotiations. He is a dynamic negotiator who has successfully secured tax abatements, PILOT agreements, sales tax sharing agreements, employee training grants, job creation grants, sales & use tax refunds and other economic incentives that have a positive and direct impact upon the client’s bottom line. Being a highly articulate and effective communicator with solid platform and presentation skills, Lee is consistently asked to deliver his client’s agenda and project summation to community and political leaders. Prior to joining Tax Incentives Consultants Lee was the Founder and President of Business Economic Incentives, LLC. Lee’s background in incentives has spanned many industries and represents a broad base of clients.
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