How Type A tax revenue helps Midland grow

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24 Jan 2025


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The best economic development strategy for any community focuses on sustainability and growth. Economic development organizations exist in their communities to promote economic growth and development. Midland Development Corporation is a Type A sales tax corporation with an array of tools and resources to assist a range of local community needs, from encouraging new business development to supporting existing businesses and recruiting relocating companies.

What is a Type A organization? 

In Texas, the Type A sales tax serves as a tool economic development corporations can use to promote manufacturing and industrial development. According to the Texas Comptroller, any city in a county with a population less than 500,000 can impose a Type A tax as long as the total local sales tax rate stays at 2% or below. Revenue generated by Type A taxes can fund multiple project types, related infrastructure upgrades, public transit, site clean-up, and certain maintenance and operating costs directly associated with projects. 

How Type A funds support new Midland businesses

New businesses require tools and resources to get started, and when Midland competes with other cities to secure new enterprises, relocations, or expansions of existing businesses, having access to strategic incentives boosts recruitment. Allowed uses of Type A revenue include many of the costs associated with project development, including land or building acquisition, equipment, or infrastructure necessary to a project as long as it falls into an approved category. Samples of those categories include:

  • Manufacturing and industrial facilities
  • Research and development facilities
  • Regional or national corporate headquarters
  • Job training facilities led by higher education institutions
  • Telephone call centers
  • Career centers
  • Infrastructure improvements for new or expanding businesses
  • Aviation facilities
  • Transit options, such as commuter buses or light rail
  • Rail switching facilities

By leveraging Type A revenue as part of an incentive package, Midland can compete for unique opportunities in the aviation industry and the global commercial space industry. The growth at the Midland Spaceport Business Park is one example of how these investments in infrastructure and manufacturing recruitment lead to job creation and retention. In addition to recruiting manufacturing and industrial facilities directly to Midland, the creation of top-tier research facilities at the Spaceport Business Park serves as an additional incentive for new and growing businesses to choose Midland.

Supporting existing businesses

Type A organizations in Texas assist existing businesses with many of the same funding opportunities new companies can access. Business retention and expansion is a major goal for Midland Development Corporation. If expansion or relocation due to growth is on the horizon, explore the incentives available locally and through the state of Texas. Additional resources, such as networking or educational courses, are also available through MDC.

To learn more about how Midland Development Corporation helps new and existing businesses grow, contact us today.