Incentive Zones & Tax Credits

The City of Fresno offers a variety of incentives designed to encourage local companies to expand and to attract new businesses to the area.

To find out if your business is located in one of our incentive zones, check our Incentive Zone Address Locator.

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Incentives

LOCAL INCENTIVES

Municipal Restoration Zone
The Municipal Restoration Zone, or MRZ, allows Eligible New or Expanding Businesses within the zone boundaries to obtain refunds of business license fees, reductions of building permit fees, and refunds of sales and/or property taxes.

The MRZ received an Award of Merit from the California Association for Local Economic Development. View the MRZ entry for the CALED award. For more information about CALED visit http://www.caled.org/02_awards.shtml

CALED's Awards of Excellence are statewide awards that honor, celebrate, and recognize successful economic development programs, projects, and partnerships. CALED is California's premier professional economic development organization dedicated to advancing its members' ability to achieve excellence in delivering economic development services to their communities and business clients.

STATE INCENTIVES

Enterprise Zone
Businesses located within the Enterprise Zone - from large manufacturing companies to small neighborhood restaurants - can reduce their state income taxes by taking advantage of special California Enterprise Zone tax benefits.

FEDERAL INCENTIVES

Empowerment Zone
Businesses in the Empowerment Zone are eligible for significant incentives, encouraging expansion. Residents living within the zone can benefit from job development and training programs, improving employability.

Foreign Trade Zone
A. U. S. Foreign Trade Zone is a designated area which, for Customs purposes, is considered outside the U. S. Nearly any imported merchandise can be brought into a Zone for almost any kind of manipulation, duty-free.

HUB Zone
The Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) is administered by the U. S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and was designed to stimulate economic development and create jobs in urban and rural communities by providing Federal contraction preferences to small businesses.

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Contact

Economic Development Department
2600 Fresno Street, Room 2156-02
Fresno, CA 93721
(559) 621-8350

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