July 29, 2009Ms. Ann Raber

VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL:

Texas Watchdog

thatbirdisaliar@gmail.com

5535 Memorial Drive, Suite F, #601Houston, Texas 77007RE:Public information requestDear Ms. Raber:The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts received your request for information, dated July 15,2009. Your request has been assigned ID# 5828748988 by this office.You asked for the following categories of information:1.Any electronic database that details payments made under the TexasEnterprise Zone Program, with fields including but not limited to paymentsmade, the name of the company, the file number assigned by the state (for example, EP0246803), the number of jobs created under the program, anyrefunds issued, any other benefits the companies in the program were issued by the state.2.Any information submitted by companies in the Texas Enterprise ZoneProgram seeking refunds, payments, or any other benefits issued by the stateWe do not maintain a database for payments made under the Texas Enterprise Zone Program;thus, we cannot provide such information. Under the Texas Enterprise Zone Program, taxpayer-level information concerning sales tax refunds is made confidential under Section 151.027 of theTexas Tax Code. We may, however, provide aggregated data, as I discussed with you bytelephone, including the total number of jobs created, the total dollar amounts of sales taxrefunds obtained, and the average sales tax refund per job created. We may also provide thenames and NAICS codes of the taxpayers designated under the Texas Enterprise Zone Program.The information provided by the taxpayer in seeking a sales tax refund under the TexasEnterprise Zone Program is considered audit information, which is made confidential under Sections 111.006 and 151.027 of the Tax Code and therefore may not be released.The aggregated information that may be provided is below. The following numbers are for the past five years and include both refunds and job statistics for the Texas Enterprise Zone Program.