Taxes & Incentives

When it comes to attracting innovative industry and helping it flourish, we mean business. Our financial advantages accrue immediately with a strategic location; also providing a higher jobs tax credit and lower costs than neighboring counties.

Startup or expansion, we’re also ready with a broad range of services and resources, including:

• Industrial Revenue Bond Financing
• Affordable Sites
• Rapid Permitting
• Property Tax Abatements 

In Manchester, your company can cut taxes now and down the line. 

Tier 1 Job Tax Credit: Up to $4,000 per qualified job

We welcome all job creators with one of the nation’s best job tax credit programs. As a Georgia Tier 1 County, we can provide up to $4,000 per qualified job against 100% of your state corporate tax liability. This includes $500 additional tax credit for being a member of a Joint Development Authority. If the credits are not used within five years, they may be carried over for up to ten years. At least ten new jobs must be created.

Non-stop support starting now, from Day One, we move you rapidly to ROI and beyond.

So when you’re ready to have a  great community, the competitive edge & tax credits  give us a call at the Manchester Development Authority. 

Results guaranteed.

Inventory “Freeport” Tax Exemption: Subtract ad valorem. 

Make more goods, keep more profits, with our 100% exemption of local ad valorem tax on raw materials, finished goods held by the original manufacturer, or finished goods destined for out-of-state shipment. The filing is fast and easy—just once a year—but the savings are year-round.

Sales and Use Tax Exemption on Manufacturing Equipment/Machinery: 

Virtually any component necessary to the manufacturing process.

Sales and Use Tax Exemption on Energy Used in Manufacturing:

More “Go” power. A new state incentive that energizes bottom lines, this exemption will be 100% phased in by 2016, but businesses can already profit now.

Port Activity Tax Credits: 

Georgia’s ports are coming on strong with strategic access and superior service, and companies who use state ports now have access to additional job tax credits. Those who increase their import/export activities enjoy $1,250 added to our Job Tax Credit. To qualify, the increase must be 10% or greater within a year, with the baseline set at the prior year’s traffic or if there is no prior usage, set at a predetermined level of 75 net tons, 5 containers, or 10 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs).