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People walk through downtown Newark as the city experiences a rise in Covid-19 cases on November 25, 2020 in Newark, New Jersey. 

People walk through downtown Newark as the city experiences a rise in Covid-19 cases on November 25, 2020 in Newark, New Jersey. 

Photographer: Spencer Platt/Getty Images North America
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Tax Breaks Threaten Remote Work If Cities Start Enforcing Them

Many tax incentives hinge on employees coming to the office. Officials are deciding whether to enforce them as downtowns bear the cost of hybrid work arrangements.

Despite pleas from big-city mayors to get employees out of their pajamas and back into downtowns, US cities and states have been left with relatively few levers to jump-start office turnout.  

But there is one tool that’s been in their arsenal since before the pandemic: tax breaks.

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