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Incentive Zones & Tax Credits

The City of Fresno offers a variety of incentives designed to encourage local companies to expand and to attract new businesses to the area. For more information, visit the City of Fresno Incentive Zones and Tax Credits page. 

To find out if your business is located in one of the City of Fresno incentive zones, visit the City of Fresno Incentive Zone Address Locator.

To learn more about Incentive Zones and Tax Credits, sign up to attend a FREE Workshop - visit the City of Fresno Events & Workshops page.

Incentives

Federal Incentives

  • Empowerment Zone - Businesses located within the City's Empowerment Zone boundaries are eligible for significant incentives, encouraging expansion.  Residents living within the zone can benefit from job development and training programs, improving employability.
  • Foreign Trade Zone - A. U. S. Foreign Trade Zone is a designated area which, for Customs purposes, is considered outside the U.S. Nearly any imported merchandise can be brought into a Zone for almost any kind of manipulation, duty-free.
  • HUB Zone - The Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) is administered by the U. S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and was designed to stimulate economic development and create jobs in urban and rural communities by providing Federal contraction preferences to small businesses.

State Incentives

  • Enterprise Zone - Businesses located within the City's Enterprise Zone boundaries - from large manufacturing companies to small neighborhood restaurants - can reduce their state income taxes by taking advantage of special California Enterprise Zone tax benefits.

Local Incentives

  • Municipal Restoration Zone - The Municipal Restoration Zone, or MRZ, allows Eligible New or Expanding Businesses within the zone boundaries to obtain refunds of business license fees, reductions of building permit fees, and refunds of sales and/or property taxes. The MRZ received an Award of Merit from the California Association for Local Economic Development.
  • For more information about City of Fresno Economic Development Department programs and services including Incentive Zones and Tax Credits, please click on the links above or visit www.fresnoez.com.

 

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Funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration and the University of California, Merced. All opinions, conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the SBA. The Central California Small Business Development Center is funded in part through a subcontract between the California State University, Fresno Craig School of Business and the University of California, Merced under the current cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration.