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Tennessee Loses Substantial Amount of Money to Tax Abatement Programs, New Findings Reveal

October 21, 2019October 20, 2019 Chris Butler

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Tennessee lost more than $159 million in revenue to tax abatement programs in 2018.

The state also lost $226 million to these programs in 2017.