Act 255 clean-up law makes incentives work for VC funds
Tax-credit legislation for venture and angel investors has been "cleaned up" to make it more closely follow the original intent. is an incentives package for investors in early-stage companies. Both venture and angel investors can apply for tax credits of 25 percent of their investments in pre-qualified Wisconsin companies. A...Experts spar over incentives for health-care providers
An executive panel on Wednesday night told health-care providers, vendors and decision-makers that agreeing on standard performance measurements and standard...State investment incentives aimed at luring angels to start-up companies
MADISON Like most states, Wisconsin has long offered specialized tax credits to expand or lure traditional businesses, but it has lacked credit programs aimed at leveraging seed capital for the states technology start-ups. Thats about to change. Act 255, a tax-credit package that passed the Legislature this spring and that is being refined through an administrative rule process this sum...Government Should Provide Incentives For Methadone Program
The Tasmanian Government has been called upon to provide better incentives with regard to the methadone program to the pharmacies. More people are being turned away as a result of the winding back of the methadone program, for which the Government has been faulted. // David Llewellyn, the Health Minister has revealed that the program has the involvement of three pharmacies only, and e...Incentives to stop Zimbabwe skills exodus
The Zimbabwe government has decided to spend US$2 million to curb a massive exodus of skilled workers like doctors, lawyers and nurses from the country.// This amount was allocated by the government as a part if a skills retention package. The state-controlled Herald was told by Washington Mbizvo, chairperson of a special government taskforce on skills retention, that improvement of con...Sway Schizophrenics With Incentives to Avail Regular Treatment
You may be shocked to know that nearly 20% to 50% of patients availing psychiatric services play truant with their medication. Amid such a scenario, a novel think-tank// has come up with a strategy, designed to entice schizophrenics to take their medicines. Patients who rely on outreach services may have huge numbers of them who do not consume medicines methodically. Schizophrenics co...Shop Till You Drop Heroin - Plan to Provide Incentives to Drug Users
A plan to provide incentives to drug users on methadone for heroin addiction, on the likes of shopping vouchers,// might be a way to encourage drug users to give up the habit, a draft guidance has indicated. Such incentive schemes employed in the past, in the United States, have always proved worthy. As per the plan suggested, users should be given compensation, if their urine or bloo...