Comment on Unlike other states, Utah treats tax-incentive data as state secret

The public will likely never know the impact of a $5.6 state million tax incentive offered to Amazon.com Inc., because unlike other states, Utah keeps the results secret. Each year of the eight-year agreement, Amazon will set a benchmark for how many jobs it plans to create. It has committed to hiring 130 people at wages 10 percent above Salt Lake County’s annual average of $49,449. At the end of the year, Amazon must prove to the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) that it met th...