[ebbv]

We in Michigan are already a bit disillusioned with Google.

We gave Google a huge ($38 million) tax break when they opened an office here in Ann Arbor with promises to hire 1,000 workers at the Ann Arbor office.

Instead staffing has been around 300 people at that office.

The state actually filed a tax lien against Google due to this violation of the agreement.

So I doubt you'll see the state getting into bed with Google again soon.

[grbalaffa]

According to this, the tax lien is not related to the tax break for the Ann Arbor office:

http://www.annarbor.com/business-review/googles-31-million-m...

[ebbv]

Initial reporting indicated otherwise:

http://www.annarbor.com/business-review/31-million-tax-lien-...

Basically stating that the office in charge of auditing companies who got the MEGA grants and making sure they qualified for them wasn't doing its job and on review it turned out Google didn't qualify and owed back taxes based on that.

But regardless, if the tax lien is unrelated (which seems weird to me, especially since the figures involved fit perfectly with the MEGA credit), Google still hasn't held up its end of the agreement.