Read the passage. municipalities often encourage development because more commercial business in a town means more revenue. one way they do this is by creating special taxing districts to lure businesses into an area. these special taxing districts give the business a set period of time in which they will pay less property tax. in order to provide elaboration in the passage, the author has used data a quotation an example an insight

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In this excerpt the author is developing the idea of how “Municipalities often encourage development because more commercial business in a town means more revenue” and in order to support this idea he provides an example, where the government creates a special taxing districts to promote the commercial business.

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