A week after the Tampa City Council voted to provide a tax subsidy for an unknown company that they were informed might bolt the region, the council on Thursday called for an investigation about why they were informed that was the case, as it was reported in recent days that in fact that company -PricewaterhouseCoopers – now says that they were never considering leaving the area.
Combined, the council and the Hillsborough County Commission voted to give $1.1 million in subsidies to keep 1,633 jobs here, a vote that observers say was unprecedented in this area. Part of the award also recognized 200 jobs the company promised to create, toward which the county in May already had pledged $120,000.
But members of both local governments have reacted with disdain after an official with PwC said earlier this week that “we never considered moving those 2,000 jobs out of Tampa.”
This article appears in Jul 28 – Aug 3, 2011.
