Nebraska Tax Incentives
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Nebraska Tax Incentives
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- Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Department of Economic Development
- Employment Solutions Assistive Technology Partnership
- Microenterprise Development Fund Enhancement
- Microenterprise Tax Credit Advantage
- Nebraska Advantage Act
- Nebraska Advantage Brochure
- Nebraska Customized Job Training Advantage
- Nebraska Worker Training Program
- Nebraska Vocational Rehabilitation
- Rural Development Advantage
- Rural Enterprise Assistance Project's Loan Program
Chamber of Commerce and Industry
The purpose of the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce and Industry site is to assist the Chamber in serving Nebraska businesses by promoting a responsive government and economic growth. The State Chamber is the instrument through which business leaders can express their needs and seek sound, workable solutions to their common problems.
Department of Economic Development
The Nebraska Department of Economic Development (DED) is the official lead economic development agency for Nebraska. Created by the Legislature in 1967, DED’s emphasis is growing and diversifying the state’s “economic base,” bringing new dollars into the state.
Employment Solutions – Assistive Technology Partnership
The Assistive Technology Partnership offers technology solutions to individuals with disabilities for the working environment. Other services that make the technology solutions more effective, like on-site assessments and modifications recommendations, are also available through the Partnership.
Assistive Technology is any device that will enable a disabled employee to be more functional and productive on the job. A good example of assistive technology is a voice recognition system for the computer. By recognizing the user’s voice, this device will type whatever is said into its microphone.
Microenterprise Development Fund Enhancement (MDFE)
The purpose of the Microenterprise Development Fund Enhancement is to assure that micro businesses realize the full potential to create jobs, enhance entrepreneurial skills and activities, and increase low-income households' capacity to become self-sufficient; and to facilitate the development of a permanent, statewide infrastructure of microlending support organizations.
Two of the main objectives of MDFE are to create jobs and assist low-income households to be more self-sufficient. These goals are applicable to many people with disabilities, who are often in need of steady employment to raise their income to a level that would enable them to be more self-reliant.
Microenterprise Tax Credit Advantage
Microenterprise Tax Credit Advantage provides a 20 percent refundable investment tax credit to micro businesses on new investment in targeted communities. Applicants may qualify for a maximum $10,000 throughout the life of the program. The credit is geared to companies with five or fewer employees, including start-ups. The credits would apply to new expenditures for wages, buildings, and non-vehicle depreciable personal property.
This credit can be applied to new building expenditures. A small business can use this as an incentive to purchase a building that is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act accessibility standards. Small businesses located in accessible buildings will help to eliminate some of the architectural barriers that hinder people with disabilities from working. With more accessible buildings, people with disabilities will be able to freely access the businesses in these buildings for more employment opportunities,
This web site is an application guide for the Microenterprise Tax Credit.
The following application must be completed to receive the Microenterprise Tax Credit.
Microenterprise Tax Credit Application PDF
Nebraska Advantage Act
The Nebraska Advantage Act, LB 312, and the new Super Advantage Tier 6 LB 895, are economic development incentives that make Nebraska more competitive for business expansions or locations, and strengthen Nebraska’s economy. The Nebraska Advantage Package, which replaces legislation that was passed nearly 20 years ago, is more comprehensive to meet the needs of your expanding or relocating business.
Nebraska Advantage Brochure
This brochure has information on some of the incentive programs offered to Nebraska businesses. The Customized Job Training Advantage, Microenterprise Tax Credit Advantage and the Nebraska Research and Development Advantage are all featured here. This brochure is a handy tool for any business in Nebraska interested in expanding or restructuring. Hopefully, changes to any business will include employing and promoting more people with disabilities.
Nebraska Advantage Brochure - PDF
Nebraska Customized Job Training Advantage
The purpose of the Nebraska Customized Training Grant Program is to provide employee training assistance to businesses that maintain, expand and diversify the state’s economic base and, in the process, retain and create quality jobs for Nebraska residents. These funds are administered by the Nebraska Department of Economic Development (DED).
Frequently, people with disabilities don’t have the skills necessary to obtain and keep competitive employment. Through this program, disabled employees can gain the skills needed to get a job and successfully advance in their career.
The following application must be completed to participate in the Customized Job Training Advantage.
Customized Job Training Advantage PDF
Nebraska Worker Training Program
The Worker Training Program is a business incentive program to support the retraining and upgrading of Nebraska’s current workforce (including persons with disabilities). Training is central to preparing Nebraskans to excel in the workplace and in marketplace today and in the future.
The following document is a grant application for the Nebraska Worker Training Program:
Nebraska Worker Training Program Grant Application PDF
Nebraska Vocational Rehabilitation (VR)
The Nebraska Vocational Rehabilitation web site informs employers on the many benefits of hiring people with disabilities through VR.
VR offers employers a diverse group of potential employees for their businesses’ workforce. Also, vocational rehabilitation offers job-matching. This means the right person is matched with the right job, which contributes to a lower turnover rate for the business utilizing this service.
Quotes from satisfied employers are also on this site as well as other services available through VR, like custom training, workplace consultation and technology solutions. These services are designed to make employees with disabilities productive, valued workers.
Rural Development Advantage
The Rural Development Advantage provides qualified businesses with refundable tax incentives for projects that create 2 new jobs and invest $125,000 in counties with less than 15,000 residents. Tele-workers count as new employees. In addition, the $250,000-investment and 5-job thresholds remain in place for counties with populations 15,000-25,000.
This program counts tele-workers as new employees. Tele-working is a way in which an employee can work for a business by working at a location other than a traditional office setting. This is a viable employment alternative for someone with a severe disability. Using technology like computers, telephones and fax machines, a disabled person can work from home (or another location) and not be troubled with obstacles that might prevent him/her from working in an office.
The following web site is an application guide for the Rural Development Advantage.
The following application must be completed to participate in the Rural Development Act.
Rural Enterprise Assistance Project’s Loan Program (REAP)
The Rural Enterprise Assistance Project's Loan Programs focus on providing capital for rural Nebraska-based startup and existing businesses. Many times the borrower is currently not bankable or requires lending participation with another financing source. REAP offers a variety of loan products and services for businesses.
Capital from a REAP loan can be used to establish jobs for people with disabilities or to purchase Assistive Technology for a disabled employee. Assistive technology is any device that enables a person with a disability to be more functional.
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