Connecticut Tax Incentives
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Connecticut Tax Incentives
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- Business Loans
- Connecticut’s Chamber of Commerce
- Connecticut Enterprise Zone Program
- Connecticut Tech Act Project
- Department of Economic and Community Development
- Job Expansion Tax Credit
- Small Business Financial Assistance
- Tax Incentives
- Vocational Rehabilitation Program – Services for Employers
Business Loans
The following web sites contain information on business loans offered to Connecticut businesses. These loans can be used to purchase ADA compliant property or Assistive Technology to make a disabled employee more productive. Job creation and retention, especially for people with disabilities, is another appropriate use of these loans.
Information Technology Loan Program
Small and Early Stage Business
Connecticut’s Chamber of Commerce
The Connecticut Chamber of Commerce has important information for anyone traveling to, relocating or looking for a job in Connecticut.
Connecticut Enterprise Zone Program
To encourage job growth and overall prosperity, businesses located in Connecticut’s Enterprise Zones can take advantage of a range of state and local benefits. Eligible businesses include manufacturers, warehouse distributors (new construction/expansion only), and certain designated service related businesses.
Very often, people with disabilities live in industrial areas that are depressed and in need of revitalization. Hiring disabled individuals from these zones would reverse the unemployment trend among this population and give their neighborhoods a much needed lift.
The following links have additional information on Connecticut’s Enterprise Zone program:
View information on Enterprise Zone Guide
View information on Enterprise Zone Highlights
This link has the Contact Information
View information on Enterprise Zone map
Connecticut Tech Act Project
The Connecticut Tech Act Project provides information and advocacy services regarding assistive technology issues. The project's goal is to make sure that Connecticut's residents with disabilities have access to Assistive Technology.
Assistive technology is any device that enables a person with a disability to be more functional. Using the proper technology at work will allow a disabled person to be more productive, and in turn, a better worker.
This web site has information on funding options to purchase assistive technology.
AT Exchange PDF is the Assistive Technology Exchange in Connecticut where you can find new and used AT devices for sale or for free. You can also post AT devices that you no longer need or use.
This website has additional information and links to assistive technology and disability related resources
Department of Economic and Community Development
The Department of Economic and Community Development is the primary resource for business assistance and industry development. It provides all the information needed to conduct business successfully in Connecticut.
Job Expansion Tax Credit
Connecticut businesses can be eligible for tax credits of $500 per month for each new full‐time job created. If the new employee is receiving vocational rehabilitative services from the Bureau of Rehabilitative Services, receiving unemployment benefits, or is a veteran employee who, at the time of hiring by the taxpayer, is a member of, was honorably discharged from or released under honorable conditions from active service in the armed forces, then the tax credit is increased to $900 per month.
This tax credit offers an additional incentive to employers who hire VR clients or honorably discharged veterans.
Small Business Financial Assistance
Growing businesses need capital, and no state realizes and responds to that need better than Connecticut. Whether the financing requirement is an equity investment, capital purchase or working capital, there is a multitude of financing programs available to support businesses large and small. The Small Business Financial Assistance website has information and links to the various financing option available to small businesses in Connecticut.
Tax Incentives
The Tax Incentive website has information on various tax credit incentives offered to businesses located in Connecticut. Among other tax credits and incentives, it includes information on the Corporate Business Tax Credit and the Enterprise Zone Program. These are incentives designed to encourage Connecticut businesses to hire and train new employees.
The workers who are hired as a result of these tax credits can be people with disabilities. As a group, people with disabilities tend to have lower employment rates. These tax incentives programs can help reverse this distressing trend.
Vocational Rehabilitation Program – Services for Employers
This web site gives information on the Vocational Rehabilitation Program in Connecticut and the services it offers to employers who hire its clients. The Vocational Rehabilitation Program assists people with disabilities to prepare for, obtain and keep employment.
Services provided to employers are as follows: technical assistance and consultation regarding disability and employment issues, finding qualified candidates for job openings and providing vocational rehabilitation services to your current employees who are eligible for this program, helping to retain good workers.
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