Press | April 9, 2018

Rogers Applauds Kentucky's Opportunity Zone Designations

WASHINGTON, DC -- In February, Congress passed and President Trump signed into law a historic federal tax reform bill called the Tax Cuts and Job Creation Act (H.R. 1). It included a plan to designate “Opportunity Zones” across the country to boost economic development through tax incentives where poverty and unemployment rates remain high. Each state was required to designate the zones utilizing census data for low-income tracts, among other economic-based factors. Governor Bevin ...