Tag: Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act
Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act: Still pending after all these years
March 25, 2013Tess Nacelewicz
QUINCY, Mass.—The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation recently launched an online letter campaign in support of the Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act, which is expected to come before Congress again in 2013, 10 years after it was first proposed.
The campaign should help, but whether the long-awaited legislation passes this session depends on a variety of factors, including debate by members of this gridlocked Congress on how to revise the tax code, according to spokesmen for the National...
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Sprinkler standoff good argument for tax incentives
January 23, 2013Tess Nacelewicz
Businesses v. Fire Sprinklers. That could be the headline of a story this week in the Chicago Tribune about a fire sprinkler requirement for businesses in the village of Westmont, Ill.
It appears businesses and the village are at odds over such basic fire protection, but they needn't be if only Congress would stop stalling and pass the Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act, or FSIA. The act would provide tax incentives that make sprinklers more affordable.
The story says that the village requires businesses...