Dupont Gives Intel Business Tax Break

The city of DuPont has joined the state in giving a tax break to Intel Corp., whose research-and-manufacturing complex here will increase the population tenfold.

The city’s decision to reduce its business-and-occupation tax could save Intel $150,000 to $412,000 a year. The company could begin seeing those benefits within five years, City Administrator Roy Bysegger said Monday.

City officials said they had little choice but to approve the tax break after Intel announced its plans.

“That’s what was implied to me,” said City Councilman Ray Miller. “If they didn’t get the break, they were going to walk.”

Mayor Willard Shenkel said the city reduced its B&O tax to “make it advantageous for Intel to come to DuPont.”

City officials resisted initially, Shenkel said, but decided, “for the good of most people, DuPont was making a little concession.”