31. Buildings financed with such bonds are eligible for a 20-year city tax abatement . 32. Ms . Messinger has been a critic of the tax abatement program in the past. 33. For shareholders in those buildings, the tax abatements are good news and bad news, 34. "Landlords could recover the expenses through tax abatements , " he explained. 35. The Walnut Street and 17th Street projects are expected to qualify for the tax abatement . 36. Alabama laid out about $ 230 million in tax abatements and improvements to lure Mercedes. 37. In return, the Unified Government approved a tax abatement of 6.2 million. 38. Toyota has not contacted the county about any tax abatement incentive or anything like that, 39. LoMa development also got a boost from a package of state tax abatements in 1995. 40. Tax abatement , then a new form of financing, was used in its construction.