How to Use tax abatement in a Sentence

tax abatement

noun
  • Bedrock also received a $60 million city tax abatement for the project in 2022.
    — The Detroit News, Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Project leaders don’t plan to file for a tax abatement, but that could change, according to Post-Tribune archives.
    — Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Project leaders don’t plan to file for a tax abatement, but that could change, according to Post-Tribune archives.
    — Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The tax abatement lasts for 10 years but the affordability requirement lasts for 20.
    — Roger Valdez, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The per-unit tax abatement program spurs the production of affordable housing without direct public subsidy.
    — Jeffrey Steele, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Under the incentive, Google would receive a 50% tax abatement, with a commitment to pay at least $1 million a year.
    — Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The company is pitching a 75% personal property tax abatement for five years, in three installments.
    — Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 22 May 2026
  • The monthlies are low for now — $622 — but the building’s J-51 tax abatement expires in 2026.
    — Clio Chang, Curbed, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Mussio said the company is asking for the tax abatement to reduce some of the facility’s operational costs early on as it gets established.
    — Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 22 May 2026
  • The company is requesting a 70% tax abatement rate over 10 years on its real and personal property investments.
    — Kelsey Brown, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The maintenance isn’t bad at $1,094 a month, although that could very well change with the building’s J-51 tax abatement expiring this year, per the listing.
    — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The Winterton Park redevelopment in Nora is moving forward with a tax abatement worth $7 million in hand.
    — Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The only amenity is shared laundry in the building, but the common charges are $332, and thanks to a tax abatement that goes through 2034, the taxes are a song — less than $5 a month.
    — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 13 Oct. 2025
  • This year’s State of the State includes a pledge to overhaul the state’s decades-old J-51 tax abatement and incentive program, which helped expand the city’s rent stabilization system.
    — Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The tax abatement rules would allow the county, the Port of Morrow, and the city of Boardman to trade tax abatements worth between $1 and $2 billion to the tech giant over the next 15 years.
    — Sean Patrick Cooper, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Through the tax abatement agreement, the city receives use taxes for materials purchased elsewhere but used for construction at the Samsung site, with a quarter of all sales and use taxes going toward buying down the property tax rate.
    — Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Incentive programs using tax abatement to create rent restricted, multifamily housing, ought to include some room for negotiating rates of abatement and inclusion.
    — Roger Valdez, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Under its initial tax abatement agreement, Samsung was exempted from certain city, county and sales taxes while paying a use tax directed to Taylor and Williamson County.
    — Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Stargate, Abilene and Taylor County agreed to a generous tax abatement package, abating 85% of property taxes for the next 10 years.
    — Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Adam Burns, who heads up Pinnacle Development, which last year completed Boston’s first conversion and has two others in the pipeline, said the tax abatement is helpful — but the finances have to make sense.
    — J.k. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2026
  • This brief survey is based on an analysis done by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) of tax abatement and exemption programs for housing across the country.
    — Roger Valdez, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • In LaPorte, the agreement announced recently eschews a tax abatement request and provides for full property taxes to be collected, 15% of which will go to the local school district, Durkin noted.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Two Carmel developers plan to demolish an aging office park in Nora to build a 250-unit market-rate apartment complex — and the project will move forward with a tax abatement worth more than $7 million over 10 years.
    — Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The agreement meant their investment group received a 100% tax abatement from 2019 to 2029 and a 50% reduction from 2030 through 2044.
    — David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2025
  • That year, Amazon broke ground on the first of the five data centers, a 200,000-square-foot facility with the energy demand equivalent of 30,000 homes and a 15-year tax abatement worth nearly $200 million.
    — Sean Patrick Cooper, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Typically, tax abatements are geared toward job-creating projects, such as factories and other industrial projects, but Department of Metropolitan Development Director Megan Vukusich said the city is seeing more developers interested in tax abatement as a development tool.
    — Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The development would be built on 485 to 940 acres in the southeast corner of Jack County near the intersection of FM 2210 and Texas 199, near the border with Wise County, according to the tax abatement application.
    — Emily Holshouser, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 June 2026

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