Longmont Workforce Perceptions Survey
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Longmont Workforce Perceptions Survey
Share your thoughts about Longmont as a place to live and work!
Opportunity Zones were enacted as part of the 2017 tax reform package (Tax Cuts and Jobs Act) to address uneven economic recovery and persistent lack of growth that have left many communities across the country behind. In the broadest sense, the newly enacted federal Opportunity Zone (OZ) program provides a federal tax incentive for investors to invest in low-income urban and rural communities through favorable treatment of reinvested capital gains and forgiveness of tax on new capital gains. In Colorado, Opportunity Zones may help address a number of challenges:
This economic and community development tax incentive program provides a new impetus for private investors to support distressed communities through private equity investments in businesses and real estate ventures. The incentive is deferral, reduction and potential elimination of certain federal capital gains taxes. U.S. investors currently hold trillions of dollars in unrealized capital gains in stocks and mutual funds alone— this is a significant untapped resource for economic development. Opportunity Funds provide investors the chance to put that money to work rebuilding the nation’s distressed communities. The fund model will enable a broad array of private equity fund managers and investors to pool their resources, increasing the scale of investments going to under-served areas.
Use the map below to explore Longmont, Colorado’s opportunity zone. You can search specific addresses in the search bar.
Contact Krista Colehower, Operations Specialist of Longmont Economic Development Partnership, at [email protected] to learn more about the opportunity zones in Longmont, Colorado.
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