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Checks in the mail
by Michael DeVault - posted E-mail Story E-mail Story | Print Story Print Story 
Checks are in the mail to the 50 or so largest property tax payers in Ouachita Parish.

The checks represent a refund of taxes that were collected to help finance a $15-million incentives package for a failed effort to establish an automobile manufacturing operation in eastern Ouachita.

The Ouachita Parish Police Jury on Monday unanimously approved refunding more than $1.4 million in property taxes it has held since 2009, the only year the Police Jury levied a 1.8-mill tax that parish voters approved to help lure Next Autoworks Co. to the region.

Voters approved the tax in 2009 to cover some $11.4 million in incentives the Police Jury and the cities of Monroe and West Monroe committed toward the $15-million incentives package. The Ouachita Economic Development Land Corp. and the Interstate 20 Economic Development District were responsible for the remainder of the balance.
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