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Business Incentives

Fuel your growth with a range of incentives, including tax credits, grants, low-interest loans, and funding programs. Whether you’re launching, expanding, or innovating, our business-friendly environment provides the support needed to reach your goals faster.

City of Saskatoon Business Development Incentive

Administered by SREDA, the City of Saskatoon established tax abatement incentives to encourage the attraction and expansion of businesses to facilitate investment and long-term job creation. These Business Development Incentives may include exemptions or reductions of city taxes or fees, waiving of utility deposits and down payments on land, and exemptions or reductions of prepaid servicing levies.

The following must be submitted before an application can be processed:

Business plan/executive summary that includes a clear and concise description of the new expansion project, the number of full-time jobs to be created, the size of investment made for land, buildings, and/or leasehold improvements
Copy of blue prints for the new building, expansion, or renovations
Recent financial statements or letter from the bank indicating that the applicant has the financial resources to complete the project

A current payroll list (including names, positions, and full-time equivalents)
If the applicant is not the legal owner of the property for the planned build or expansion, provide a copy of the lease agreement upon application

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City of Saskatoon Business Development Incentive

Administered by SREDA, the City of Saskatoon established tax abatement incentives to encourage the attraction and expansion of businesses to facilitate investment and long-term job creation.

Vacant Lot and Adaptive Re-use Incentive Program

The Vacant Lot and Adaptive Re-use Incentive Program is designed to encourage development on existing vacant or brownfield sites, and the reuse of vacant buildings in established buildings in the city by providing financial and/or tax-based incentives to owners of eligible properties.

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Targeted Mineral Exploration Incentive (TMEI)

The Targeted Mineral Exploration Incentive (TMEI) supports the diversification of Saskatchewan’s mineral sector by encouraging exploration for base metals, precious metals, and diamonds. Other components of the strategy include the provision of new airborne geophysical data and complementary ground-based geoscience investigations.

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Saskatchewan Value-Added Agriculture Incentive (SVAI)

The Saskatchewan Value-Added Agriculture Incentive (SVAI) program offers non-refundable tax credits on capital expenditures valued at $10 million or more for newly constructed or expanded value-added agriculture facilities in Saskatchewan.

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Saskatchewan Investment Tax Credit (ITC) for Manufacturing and Processing (M&P)

The Saskatchewan Investment Tax Credit (ITC) for Manufacturing and Processing (M&P) is available to manufacturing and processing corporations filing a T2 CIT return with some allocation of taxable income to Saskatchewan. This is a refundable tax credit designed to encourage plant and equipment investment for M&P activities in Saskatchewan.

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Ashley Carter

Manager, Business Attraction & Growth

(306) 664-0727 acarter@sreda.com