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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

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The Douglas-Coffee County Chamber of warehousing and distribution, research
Commerce also offers business assistance and development, processing, and
including networking events and leadership tourism industries.
training programs and seminars.
Taxes & Incentives “In Douglas, people
Coffee County offers businesses 100 genuinely love people.
percent Freeport, meaning that raw They also love and support their
materials, goods in process, and finished hometown. But people from Douglas
goods bound for out-of-state shipment take that point of pride and always
that are held in factories and warehouses manage to take it a step further than
in Coffee County are 100 percent exempt most places and accomplish the most
from county ad valorem taxes. Sales tax in extraordinary of challenges at the
the county is 7 percent, which includes a 2 most appropriate of times.”
percent local sales tax. Donny Bradshaw
A variety of incentives are offered Elixir Extrusions -CFO and
to area businesses, many of which have Chairman Douglas-Coffee
special provisions for Tier 1 counties Chamber of Commerce
such as Coffee County. The statewide
incentives include tax credits, discretionary
programs, cost-saving programs, and
sales and use tax exemptions.
In Georgia, job credits provide as
much as $4,000 in annual tax savings
per job for up to five years. They
are available to manufacturing,
telecommunications, broadcasting,
TOP 10

LARGEST PUBLIC
EMPLOYERS

• Coffee County Board of Education
• Concerted Services
• Coffee County Government
• City of Douglas
• South Georgia State College
• Wiregrass Technical College
• DFCS
• Department of Transportation
• Department of Pardons, Paroles
& Probation
• Georgia Department of Labor

Source: Locate Coffee County, 2018

8 Douglas-Coffee County Chamber of Commerce 912-384-1873 douglasga.org