Tesla secures tax breaks for cybertruck factory in Texas
<p style="text-align: center;"><img title="1594787668120940.png" alt="8.png" src="/ueditor/php/upload/image/20200715/1594787668120940.png"/></p><p>A central Texas county that includes Austin on Tuesday approved a plan to provide millions in tax subsidies to Tesla Inc if it builds a $1.1 billion vehicle factory in the area.<br/><br/>The decision marks a step forward for Texas as it vies with Oklahoma to attract a new factory to build Tesla's Y sport utility vehicles and cybertrucks.<br/><br/>A majority of commissioners in Travis County voted in favor of providing the electric carmaker with a tax rebate worth at least $14.7 million.<br/><br/>That brings the total amount of tax rebates to nearly $65 million after the Del Valle school district, which includes the proposed factory site, approved a $50 million incentive on Thursday.<br/><br/>Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<br/><br/>The electric carmaker only has a single vehicle manufacturing plant in California and has said it wants to start building a large second plant in the southwestern United States as early as the third quarter of this year..<br/><br/>Commissioners in favor of the agreement decided to move forward after a Tesla representative said executives had met with the governor of a rival state, without naming the state.<br/><br/>The city of Tulsa in Oklahoma has campaigned for Tesla to build the plant there.<br/><br/>Tesla has asked Travis County for an 80% rebate on its property taxes for 10 years, worth $14.7 million, as well as a 65% rebate for the next 10 years after that.<br/><br/>Tesla said the factory would create 5,000 jobs, mostly low-skilled. The average annual salary would be roughly $47,000, an income considered low by the county's health and human services division.</p>
15 Jul,2020
