Incentives

Position your operation at the very heart of Florida’s empowering economic climate notable for pro-growth advantages like zero personal income taxes and business-friendly regulation. The Heartland adds to those advantages with the elimination of impact fees, plus lower costs of living and lower costs of doing business.

Florida incentives support a stronger profitability picture through diverse areas of assistance, speeding ROI and helping to sustain long-term growth. Florida and Heartland incentives help your operation:

Available for qualified startup and relocation projects and for existing operations seeking to expand, Florida workforce incentives assure a performance-ready workforce with custom-fit skills at strategically lower costs. Coordinated for one-stop ease through Career Source Florida, incentives include:

• Quick Response Training (QRT): For qualified new employment projects, QRT offers a collaborative approach tailored to specific operational needs with training designed and delivered to employer specifications, whether in-house, through outside vendors or through local educational resources. With QRT, business moves faster from the start.
• Incumbent Worker Training (IWT): Skills acquisition can’t be one-and-done for today’s ever-evolving needs, and for qualified projects, IWT defrays costs for upskilling existing employees, whether to tackle a new product or process or to support an expansion. IWT keeps Heartland operations competitive.

As a Florida-designated Rural Area of Opportunity, the Heartland is flexibly positioned to offer advantages including:

• Rural Job Creation Incentives with tax credits for qualified projects ranging from $1,000 to $1,500 per qualified employee.
• Rural Community Development Revolving Loan Fund, offering low-interest loans to expand opportunity for businesses to invest in expansion or improvements.
• Rural Infrastructure Fund, keeping communities prepared for business infrastructure needs.

Heartland assures global competitiveness through:

• Two Foreign Trade Zones, located at Immokalee Regional Airport and Sebring Regional Airport, which reduce costs and complications of overseas shipping.