[ecommerceguy]

Tax Increment Financing is used so much (abused) by local jurisdictions for infrastructure improvements, sales tax will never go away. It's a mess.

[jmj42]

TIF is a property tax financing scheme. Abuse or not, its use has very little impact on sales tax.

[jessaustin]

It has a very large effect on what shows up next to the "sales tax" label on your receipt. Sure if they were honest it would say "fee to make the developer's interest payments", but it never says that.