<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1WsDye_1GzZpVso00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1WsDye_1GzZpVso00" width="1680" height="1120" ><figcaption>Mayor Christine Erickson and the Sioux Falls City Council listen to a proposal from the Sioux Falls Planning and Development Services Department to overhaul property tax relief programs made available by the city. (Joe Sneve / The Dakota Scout)</figcaption></figure>South Dakota's largest city is eliminating more tax breaks for data centers.The Sioux Falls City Council voted 7-0 Tuesday to revise its industrial property tax reduction program, removing data processing and storage operations from the list of businesses eligible for reduced property tax assessments.“I have consistently maintained that data centers must pay their own way. This ordinance will ensure that they do,” Mayor Christine Erickson told The Dakota Scout. “I appreciate the City Council’s support in making this reality.”The move comes as an ad hoc council committee holds a series of meetings to consider potential regulations for data centers, including smaller operations and facilities beyond the large, energy-intensive server farms that have fueled public opposition in Sioux Falls, across the state and nationwide.Until now, the city's industrial property tax program did not specifically exclude data processing and storage facilities. Data centers had already been excluded from a sales tax rebate program offer by Sioux Falls City Hall.The council's latest vote was part of a broader overhaul of Sioux Falls’ four property tax reduction programs that began in the late 1980s, including Sioux Falls’ downtown commercial property tax reduction options.The revisions also seek to bring the city programs in line with property tax reforms adopted at the state level in recent years by Gov. Larry Rhoden and the state Legislature. Dustin Powers, the city's business development manager, told councilors that qualifying projects will now receive reduced property tax assessments for five to seven years, depending on the type of development.The industrial program will also add cybersecurity as an eligible use, simplify language covering manufacturing, warehousing and distribution, and require at least 75 percent of a facility’s square footage to be devoted to a qualifying use. The minimum increase in property value required for an industrial project will rise to $500,000.The changes also standardize application procedures and deadlines across all four programs, which Powers said have narrower eligibility standards than what state law allows.“Our programs are historically more conservative and restrictive than what codified allows and what our other communities have implemented around us,” he said.<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=15YvWQ_1GzZpVso00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=15YvWQ_1GzZpVso00" width="1680" height="1120" ><figcaption>Sioux Falls Business Development Manager Dustin Powers (Joe Sneve / The Dakota Scout)</figcaption></figure>This story was originally published on TheDakotaScout.com.______________________________________________________This story was written by one of our partner news agencies. Forum Communications Company uses content from agencies such as Reuters, Kaiser Health News, Tribune News Service and others to provide a wider range of news to our readers. Learn more about the news services FCC uses here.</div></body>

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South Dakota's largest city is eliminating more tax breaks for data centers. The Sioux Falls City Council voted 7-0 Tuesday to revise its industrial property tax reduction program, removing data processing and storage operations from the list of businesses eligible for reduced property tax assessments. “I have consistently maintained that...

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Sioux Falls eliminates more tax breaks for data centers

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