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ExxonMobil resolves tax abatement default, moves employees from Spring to The Woodlands

Source: https://communityimpact.com/houston/the-woodlands/government/2021/04/29/exxonmobil-resolves-tax-abatement-default-moves-employees-from-spring-to-the-woodlands/

By Vanessa Holt | 1:59 PM Apr 29, 2021 CDT | Updated 2:08 PM Apr 29, 2021 CDT

ExxonMobil has resolved a default on a tax abatement agreement with Montgomery County by moving employees to its Hughes Landing facilities in The Woodlands, county officials said at a Montgomery County Commissioners Court meeting April 27.

The corporation had failed to meet a requirement to have 470 employees at each of its buildings in The Woodlands as of the January reporting period, county officials previously reported. It would have faced paying about $4 million to taxing entities including Montgomery County unless it complied within 30 days, Community Impact Newspaper previously reported.

“We have received notification from ExxonMobil that they are in compliance; they have moved 477 employees from their campus located in Spring and the adjoining building, to building B, bringing them into compliance with the terms of the agreement,” Montgomery County Tax Assessor-Collector Tammy McRae said at the April 27 meeting.

McRae said the company would follow up with other governing bodies that have granted an abatement, including The Woodlands Township.

In 2013, Montgomery County Commissioners Court and The Woodlands Township board of directors each approved two 10-year 100% tax abatements to ExxonMobil for one and a half office buildings and an 11-story parking garage in the Hughes Landing development in The Woodlands.

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Taxes and other government kickbacks - that is the true lifebl00d of EM.

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@tlp - that explains a heck of a lot. I remember being told (a lifetime ago) that more that half of the company's decisions are "tax related" !

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A lot of GCGV projects folks work at Hughes Landing. All through COVID, they were required to come in to the office. Which is funny, because the actual project is in Corpus Christi. So, they would come in and sit at their desks on Zoom meetings all day. This didn’t make sense, until you consider that there was an effort to keep the Hughes Landing headcount up. Maybe that is too cynical though. Maybe it was just because the higher level GCGV folks at Hughes Landing didn’t believe in COVID, considering they would walk around without a mask on.

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