I'm not sure there's an official code for it in the States, but it definitely happens. In this case, Apple is spending in excess of a hundred million - $66M on

I'm not sure there's an official code for it in the States, but it definitely happens. In this case, Apple is spending in excess of a hundred million - $66M on things like infrastructure and low-income housing, $35 incentivizing alternative transit to work, and $15.4M annually to the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/04/apple-campus-2-7k-employees-32m-in-property-tax-9k-construction-jobs-66m-in-public-improvements/ http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/04/apple-campus-2-7k-employee...). In some cases, companies get sweet deals from locations to move there - Tesla is getting a whopping $1.2B from Nevada. But in Apple's case, they're paying.