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Amazon received $49 million in subsidies, tax breaks, and grants from Louisiana communities to build seven facilities.
Advocacy group Good Jobs First, which opposes such subsidies, found Louisiana provided the 19th-highest amount of grants and breaks among U.S. states to the nearly $1-trillion company.
Louisiana is ranked behind Wisconsin (6 projects/$54 million) and ahead of New Jersey (3 projects/$45 million), Florida (13 projects/$43 million), and Connecticut (3 projects/$38 million).
Arlington, Virginia was awarded the largest portion of the 310 taxpayer-subsidized Amazon projects.
The two largest subsidies provided in Louisiana were from the Baton Rouge government, equaling $35 million for a maximum amount in 10-year city PILOT (Cortana Mall site) and $5 million for a state infrastructure grant paid in 2022 and 2023; plus unknown amount in workforce development funds. (Cortana Mall site).
There were no developments which received undisclosed subsidy amounts.
As of Nov. 17, 2022, Amazon had received 310 separate tax break deals from local and state governments across the U.S., totaling $5.14 billion.
| State | # Projects | Total Subsidy |
|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 20 | $824,291,799 |
| Illinois | 16 | $732,973,199 |
| New York | 22 | $671,446,986 |
| Washington | 10 | $608,644,670 |
| Oregon | 32 | $483,459,645 |
| Texas | 13 | $305,959,751 |
| Ohio | 14 | $172,418,555 |
| Tennessee | 20 | $166,030,438 |
| Kentucky | 21 | $111,789,976 |
| Missouri | 2 | $110,600,000 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | $86,979,275 |
| California | 12 | $84,541,000 |
| Michigan | 5 | $82,352,146 |
| Maryland | 3 | $68,425,000 |
| South Carolina | 5 | $64,297,962 |
| Indiana | 15 | $60,389,500 |
| Alabama | 2 | $56,500,000 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | $54,135,500 |
| Louisiana | 7 | $48,967,587 |
| New Jersey | 3 | $45,422,240 |
| Florida | 13 | $43,239,475 |
| Connecticut | 3 | $37,700,000 |
| North Carolina | 5 | $31,186,975 |
| Pennsylvania | 4 | $29,557,871 |
| Georgia | 5 | $27,115,929 |
| Mississippi | 3 | $23,925,795 |
| Iowa | 2 | $22,400,000 |
| Kansas | 2 | $21,802,522 |
| Colorado | 9 | $15,779,091 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | $11,207,651 |
| Utah | 3 | $9,780,226 |
| Delaware | 2 | $7,972,500 |
| Minnesota | 1 | $5,700,000 |
| New Mexico | 1 | $5,244,071 |
| Arizona | 2 | $5,139,671 |
| Nevada | 5 | $3,251,324 |
| Rhode Island | 1 | $2,700,000 |
| Maine | 11 | $578,828 |
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