| 1.
What does "tax-exempt" mean?
2.
What is the advantage for the borrower?
3.
What is the interest rate for a tax-exempt
IDB?
4.
What types of facilities may be financed through
a tax-exempt IDB?
5.
What are the exceptions to financing non-manufacturing
facilities?
6.
Who issues tax-exempt bonds for borrowers
in the City of Los Angeles?
7.
What amount of time is required to complete
a bond issue?
8.
What type of security or collateral is required
for an IDB?
9.
What are the funding limits?
10.
What are the terms?
11.
Who are the IDA Bond Finance Team members?
12.
Does the project involve a manufacturing
or processing activity?
13.
Will a significant portion of the project
(60–75%) consist of core manufacturing or processing?
14.
Are the capital costs of the project less than $10MM?
The
Code limits the size of an Industrial Development Bond issue to
$10MM. However, counted against the $10MM ceiling are the company's
other capital expenditures, no matter how funded, incurred in
the same city as the project during the period three years before
and three years after the bonds are issued.
15.
Does the company have any other tax-exempt
bonds outstanding?
16.
Will the project result in an increase
of employees, job retention or some other
public benefit?
17.
Will the project involve the acquisition
of an existing building?
18.
How will the project’s asset values
be amortized?
19.
Would the company otherwise qualify for
a conventional bank loan?
20.
Have any cost been paid with respect to
the project?
21.
Will the company relocate its manufacturing
facilities from one location in California to another? |
