Canon U.S.A. Inc. won preliminary approval for more tax breaks from Suffolk County on Thursday, after threatening to jettison its large headquarters building in Melville and have its 1,100 employees work from home permanently.
The Japanese camera and photocopying giant requested additional help because a 10-year incentive package initially approved in 2007 for $35 million is set to expire.
That aid, from the county’s Industrial Development Agency, played a key role in Canon’s decision to relocate the headquarters from Lake Success to a former pumpkin farm on Walt Whitman Road instead of out of state. The company moved to the $500 million building in early 2013.
