Tuesday, October 20, 2009
New Pa. budget cuts film tax credit by 45 percent
Philadelphia Inquirer | 10/13/2009: "Pennsylvanians in the movie business are seeing a half-full glass this week. State legislators last week closed a $3 billion budget gap in part by reducing - but not eliminating - the Film Tax Credit program, trimmed from $75 million to $42 million for fiscal year 2009-2010."
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this is great that the pa government is giving the movie industry a tax cut for making there movies in pa. this is a good thing because they bring lots of jobs to the aria and make the economy better and get more jobs for the aria. and then people might come and vista the aria to see where the movie was made and possible see the movie being made. so this is great that they are doing this and making it keep on going so that we might be able to work on a moive if they need help. so i think that this is great that they are doing that.
This article was great at showing that the government dos not care that much about the entertainment industry. All what they won’t is to get money for the entertainment industry. The government saw a lacking in there begat and saw this tax cut and they got rid of this to fill there leaking in there budget. I don’t agree that they cut this I think that a lot of people will not have work because the movie industry will just go some where else that would give them this tax cuts. I think that get ride of this tax cut is a bad idea for the PA government. I think that they should fined some where else to get there money some where else. So I think that this is bad idea for them.
It's a shame that the credit was lowered, especially with so many films in Pittsburgh alone recently. Clearly this program was working, and helping bring more movies to the state, so I don't understand why this cut was made. I'm happy to see that it is being fully reinstated in two or so years. I think Pittsbugh has a rich enough film history that this tradition should continue, and more films would be attracted to the area if there was more of an incentive.
PA FILM IS DEAD, LONG LIVE PA FILM.
After interning on a film this summer, I am so, so saddened by this news. I met so many wonderful people in the film industry; people even came from Chicago to work. There are three films shooting here right now, but very few scheduled in the future with the lowered tax credit. Productions are already moving to Georgia and New Mexico because they're cheaper locations than anywhere in the North East. I'm sorry the economy here is so bad that PA can't take the opportunity to encourage growth in this sector of the entertainment industry.
While I understand that, for budget reasons, the state had to lower the tax credit for films, I wish they wouldn't have. The film industry is just starting to take off in Pittsburgh give the arts community another tight connection to the outside world of entertainment. The films provided jobs for the artists in the area and brought attention to Pittsburgh as a place where sucessful movies and art can be made. These are among the reasons that Obama decided to move the G20 conference to Pittsburgh to show off its growing arts scene. I hope that this move by the state does not impact this growing artistic community too negatively and does not rapidly decrease the number of movies filming in Pittsburgh.
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