AK AL AR AZ CA CO CT DC DE FL GA HI IA ID IL IN KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN MO MS MT NC ND NE NH NJ NM NV NY OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TN TX UT VA VT WA WI WV WY Select a city Select a county (Select) Enterprise zone Free Land General Grants Industrial Revenue Bond Infrastructure Job training and recruiting grants Property Tax Abatements Sales Tax Abatements Tax Credits

AK AL AR AZ CA CO CT DC DE FL GA HI IA ID IL IN KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN MO MS MT NC ND NE NH NJ NM NV NY OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TN TX UT VA VT WA WI WV WY

AL AR AZ CA CO FL GA IA IL IN KS KY LA MA MD MI MN MO MS NC NE NH NJ NV NY OH OK OR PA SC TN TX UT VA WA WI WY Select a city Select a county

Wal-Mart Subsidy Report for South Carolina

Subsidies received by Wal-Mart

There are no centralized databases of economic development subsidies, but Good Jobs First found 3 deals worth a total of about $38.5 million in South Carolina. They include the following:

Good Jobs First has compiled data on Wal-Mart subsidies in the following cities

Hidden taxpayer costs

Many Wal-Mart workers are ineligible for health coverage from their employer or choose not to purchase what is available, because it is too expensive or too limited in scope. These workers often turn to taxpayer-funded health programs such as Medicaid. South Carolina among those states that have not disclosed data on the employers with the most workers or their dependents enrolled in such programs.

For an estimate of how much Wal-Mart is costing the state of SC for taxpayer-funded healthcare, see http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/feature/healthcrisis/map.html#SC

Property Tax Appeals

In the course of researching our report Rolling Back Property Tax Payments