Congratulations to Blackbuad for the announcement of its new worldwide corporate headquarters campus in South Carolina!
California
- Congressional candidates weigh in on ideas
to improve North State's economy,
Record Searchlight (May 7,
2016)
California focuses upon establishing a more sustainable economy. - Experts take on climate change at Stanford
University conference,
The Mercury News (May 7,
2016)
Stanford University hosts experts to discuss global climate change and the impact on potential incentives to reward sustaining behaviors from companies. - Congressional candidates give views on
infrastructure, Record
Searchlight (May 14, 2016)
California's infrastructure needs could total $65 billion.
Georgia
- Atlanta leaders look for answers in
Texas, The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution (May 3,
2016)
Leaders from Atlanta, Georgia travel to Dallas, Texas to learn how Texas approaches economic development. - Georgia extends sunset date of exemption
for regionally significant competitive
projects, TaxAnalysts.com
(May 3, 2016)**
Georgia HB 937, signed into law as Act 596, changes the sunset date of the exemption for sales of tangible personal property used in the construction of competitive projects of regional significance from June 30, 2019, and extends the sunset date of the excise tax on rental car charges from December 31, 2038, to December 31, 2047. - Georgia DOR rules taxpayer's new LLC
will qualify for high-technology computer
exemption, TaxAnalysts.com
(February 23, 2016)**
The Georgia Department of Revenue advised a taxpayer forming a new limited liability company to provide business process and information technology services to its partners that transfers of hardware and software assets from the taxpayer to the new entity will be exempt from sales and use tax under the state's high-technology computer exemption.
North Carolina
- North Carolina tourism posts record 2015;
will it continue this year in light of HB
2?, Charlotte Business
Journal (May 4, 2016)
North Carolina begins to feel the impact of HB 2. - Public records: Commerce learned of PayPal
HB2 reversal from the Internet,
Triangle Business Journal (May
16, 2016)
North Carolina state commerce officials attempt to mitigate the impact of HB 2.
South Carolina
- Don't let SRS serve as nuclear dump
site, The Post and
Courier (May 15, 2016)
South Carolina deals with significant issues related to nuclear waste site. - Editorial: Get something done on
infrastructure,
Greenville Online (May 15,
2016)
South Carolina continues to examine its massive infrastructure needs and the source(s) of the significant funds needed to fix the roads. - Blackbaud expanding Berkeley County
operations, lowcountrybizSC.com
(May 18, 2016)
Leading tech company Blackbaud announces new worldwide headquarters in South Carolina, adding 300 jobs. -
Morris Ellison discusses smartphone impact on retail in
Southeast Real Estate Business
article, wcsr.com (May
20, 2016)
Womble Carlyle attorney, Morris Ellison, writes about how the smartphone revolution has altered current consumer market trends.
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