03/29/2024

California’s Expanded Film Tax Credits Returned Jobs to LA in 2015

The local film and television industry won a hard-fought battle when Gov. Jerry Brown approved legislation to more than triple California’s film tax credit in August 2014. The expanded incentives program went into effect in July and has already started to pay dividends.

The new legislation increased the program’s budget from $100 million annually to $330 million and opened up the state’s film incentives to big-budget movies and network TV dramas as well as indie films and cable shows. Movies and TV shows can get 15 percent or more of their budget reimbursed, with 5 percent bonuses if they relocate from another state; shoot outside the L.A. area; or hire musicians or visual effects workers in-state.

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