Incentives Coverage

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Are you eligible for thousands of dollars back using new tax incentives? 5 on Your Side's Keely Arthur lays out the steps you need to follow to get your money.

Incentives often don't always mean job creation, new state report shows

Data released this month from the Department of Commerce shows that few companies that have been given these grants follow through on their commitments.

Ali Ingersoll, WRAL Investigative Data Journalist

North Carolina offering more incentives to Apple than every other state combined, records show

WRAL Data Trackers looked through the numbers to see if and how the massive investment might pay off.

Ali Ingersoll, WRAL investigative data reporter

Toyota battery plant 'a game changer for North Carolina'

Toyota plans to build a $1.3 billion plant in the Triad to manufacture batteries for electric and hybrid vehicles, state officials said Monday.

Do vaccine incentives pay off in more shots?

With more counties expected to offer gift cards or other incentives to parents hesitant to get their children vaccinated against coronavirus, WRAL's Dan Haggerty looks at how effective incentive programs were for adult vaccinations.

Dirt moving, incentives approved for rumored Amazon distribution center in Fayetteville

City and county officials on Monday agreed to provide up to $2.5 million in incentives to help attract a distribution facility to Fayetteville.

Gilbert Baez, WRAL Fayetteville reporter

Fayetteville distribution facility would create 500 jobs, bring $100M investment

City and county officials on Monday agreed to provide up to $2.5 million in incentives to help attract a distribution facility to Fayetteville.

Fayetteville council discusses incentives for 500-job project

The Fayetteville City Council meets to discuss providing $1.25 million in incentives for an economic development proposal known only as "Project Bronco."

Use them or lose them: Edgecombe races to give out remaining vaccination cash cards

North Carolina's summer vaccination incentive program ended last week in most counties, but Edgecombe County is still in a race against the clock to give out the rest of its $100 rewards.

Keenan Willard, WRAL Eastern North Carolina reporter

Wake leaders: More big job announcements on horizon

Wake County leaders say it took years to bring Apple to RTP, but more expansions are already lining up to follow its lead.

Wake leaders say Apple's $1B investment just the beginning of RTP growth

Wake County leaders spoke Friday about why Apple chose North Carolina for its new campus, and about new projects coming to the area near the RTP site.

Adam Owens, WRAL anchor/reporter

Esports would get a boost in NC House bill

State House lawmakers are looking at tax incentives to bring e-sports tournaments to North Carolina and funding for more training centers at schools around the state.

Laura Leslie, WRAL Capitol Bureau chief

NC changed incentives law to lure 'big fish' like Apple

To land Apple, North Carolina dangled a massive incentives package. It even rewrote incentive program rules two years ago with Apple in mind.

Apple deal will bring benefits well beyond the Triangle

The state law that allows for tax incentives for big projects like the Apple campus allows North Carolina to tap state tax withholding for each of Apple's employees and direct the money into a fund which provides for broadband internet, roads, bridges and public school investments in 80 counties.

Lawmakers back incentives to bring 'sports championship employer' to NC

A bill moving quickly through the legislature offers $18 million to draw championship events and a new museum to the state.

Travis Fain, WRAL statehouse reporter

Wake leaders approve $1.4M deal for Microsoft jobs, investment

Microsoft stands to collect more than $1.4 million from Wake County if the tech giant delivers on its plans to hire 500 new software developers at a new Morrisville facility over the next several years.

Tyler Dukes, WRAL investigative reporter

Designed to boost rural counties, incentives buoy wealthy ones instead

For more than a decade, the vast majority of the $1.3 billion in cash grants committed to lure jobs to the state has been directed to companies in the state's most prosperous areas.

Tyler Dukes, WRAL investigative reporter

Do job promises pay off? WRAL digs into the numbers

In the past decade, the state has promised hundreds of companies grant money in exchange for hiring. But a WRAL analysis finds that job creation often falls short of the targets.

Under two governors, incentive programs miss the mark on hiring

More than a third of the incentive projects announced under North Carolina's largest economic development programs in the last decade failed to generate a single new hire.

Tyler Dukes, WRAL investigative reporter

As Apple expands in Texas, NC officials withhold details on efforts to land tech giant

A full year after Apple announced its second campus in Austin, Texas, Gov. Roy Cooper's administration maintains the state's recruitment of the company is an "active project" - and has withheld records detailing the state's work to recruit the company.

Tyler Dukes, WRAL investigative reporter

Is NC still seeking Apple? After 8 months, 'no change' in project's status

It's been eight months since Apple announced it would locate a second campus in Austin, Texas, shocking North Carolina officials actively recruiting the tech company for a rumored expansion in Research Triangle Park.

Tyler Dukes, investigative reporter

Long after Apple picks Texas, NC officials silent on recruitment efforts

For six months, North Carolina officials have kept the public in the dark about their failed efforts last year to lure Apple's sought-after new campus to the state.

Tyler Dukes, WRAL investigative reporter

What is that price again? Be wary of dynamic pricing practices in some Assisted Living and Memory Care

Different residential care communities use different pay model to incentivize their marketing and sales staff. Be aware of dynamic pricing, revenue-based incentive packages, and other business practices that can cost you tens of thousands over two years.

Liisa Ogburn

Incentives may not have played role in Apple campus decision

Although it's unclear exactly what Texas offered to land an Apple campus in Austin, some experts say North Carolina's incentive package was likely much richer.

NC officials surprised by Apple announcement

Gov. Roy Cooper's administration is largely silent on losing out. High-ranking officials say they found out via middle-of-the-night news release, like everyone else.

Travis Fain, WRAL statehouse reporter