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The House passed a franchise tax cut and expanded film grants despite an attempt to shoot down the expansion of film grants.
Published: Monday, November 4th, 2019 @ 11:05 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A corporate tax cut expected to pass at the end of the General Assembly’s session surprisingly wound up on the cutting room floor.
Published: Monday, November 4th, 2019 @ 12:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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If it were a film, North Carolina’s subsidy program wouldn’t be a box office smash. A recent study from the Western Carolina University Center for the Study of Free Enterprise says the $400 million North Carolina taxpayers have invested in film subsidies has failed to pay dividends.
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2019 @ 2:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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When are special interest subsidies not just special interest subsidies?
Published: Tuesday, December 11th, 2018 @ 3:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Time Magazine’s Aug. 6 special issue focuses on the American South. One of the articles is about Georgia’s film production incentives, entitled “How Georgia Became the Hollywood of the South.”
Published: Tuesday, August 14th, 2018 @ 3:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The proposed new state budget would not expand the state’s overall film grant program this year
Published: Saturday, June 2nd, 2018 @ 12:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state legislature regularly draws fire for its decision to end an old, very generous tax break for film and TV production and replace it with a smaller, more-targeted grant program
Published: Thursday, March 15th, 2018 @ 10:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Cooper signed into law S.B. 582, an act (i) to make technical, clarifying, and other modifications to the current operations appropriations act of 2017 and to related legislation and (ii) to make agency technical corrections
Published: Thursday, October 12th, 2017 @ 11:40 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The 2017-18 General Assembly may soon try to keep alive its unblemished record of overriding Gov. Roy Cooper's vetoes
Published: Wednesday, October 11th, 2017 @ 9:58 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Rep. Ted Davis, R-New Hanover, bucked conservative critics who strenuously objected to making a $30-million taxpayer subsidy to Hollywood a permanent annual state allocation
Published: Monday, October 9th, 2017 @ 11:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Film director Rob Reiner and other Hollywood notables have railed against North Carolina, threatened not to work in the state again, and raised the possibility of economic boycotts because of House Bill 2, the so-called bathroom bill
Published: Sunday, March 26th, 2017 @ 12:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper’s proposal to try to lure the film industry to make movies, TV shows, and commercials in North Carolina by returning to an abandoned tax incentives program is meeting resistance
Published: Sunday, March 5th, 2017 @ 12:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For decades, energy costs have been manipulated by state government subsidies. Just like other subsidies, whether for the film industry, automobile manufacturers, or even specific companies, special treatments transfer the tax burden from the recipients of the subsidies to others, creating unfair...
Published: Tuesday, January 12th, 2016 @ 4:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The editors of The Fayetteville Observer are interested in the film industry and with storytelling in general. An example of the latter came to my attention recently.
Published: Sunday, February 15th, 2015 @ 2:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's film tax incentives program has changed significantly. Formerly a refundable tax credit of 25 percent of qualifying production expenses capped at $20 million per production, the program now is a $10 million grant program.
Published: Sunday, January 11th, 2015 @ 12:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor McCrory and others are advocating the restoration of the historic preservation tax credit.
Published: Saturday, December 27th, 2014 @ 8:45 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Those of us who consider ourselves moderates are following our state's current events with interest and no small measure of amusement.
Published: Wednesday, June 11th, 2014 @ 12:09 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Efforts by the state's film industry to continue getting incentives from North Carolina taxpayers were revived Thursday when a Senate committee - and later the entire Senate - approved a new plan awarding grants to filmmakers.
Published: Monday, June 9th, 2014 @ 7:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lobbyists for North Carolina's motion-picture industry, in an attempt to preserve an expiring taxpayer subsidy for film production in the state, are circulating two "talking points" documents to lawmakers attacking the credibility of those who have questioned the figures.
Published: Saturday, June 7th, 2014 @ 9:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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How serious are our state leaders about economic growth and long-term recovery? Are they committed to broadening the base of taxpayers so that everyone pays something and nearly everyone pays less? Will they stand strong to continue the reforms that are turning the state around?
Published: Saturday, May 31st, 2014 @ 10:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Do you think your taxes are too high? Would like a tax break? Well, some NC legislators are happy to give you a big tax break – if you are a big Hollywood film studio.
Published: Wednesday, May 28th, 2014 @ 2:08 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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A presentation prepared by the N.C. Commerce Department's Labor and Economic Analysis Division finds a net "negative budgetary impact" of North Carolina's film incentives.
Published: Sunday, April 6th, 2014 @ 2:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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At an early March meeting in Charlotte of the N.C. Governor's Conference on Tourism, state Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker admitted that a 25-percent refundable tax credit for the film industry, scheduled to expire in January, may be in trouble.
Published: Monday, March 31st, 2014 @ 8:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's film tax credits are currently slated to expire at the close of 2014. Accuracy requires use of the word "currently" to underscore the fluidity of the situation.
Published: Friday, October 18th, 2013 @ 12:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's film tax incentive program is in the news again. The Fayetteville Observer recently carried a puff piece about how "Stars have aligned for North Carolina's film industry."
Published: Sunday, August 12th, 2012 @ 11:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Less than a month after North Carolina legislators approved more money for the state's film tax incentives program, a new John Locke Foundation Spotlight Report pans film incentives as a clear example of cronyism.
Published: Friday, July 20th, 2012 @ 8:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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efore states began film tax incentives programs, North Carolina was a popular off-Hollywood destination for film crews.
Published: Thursday, July 19th, 2012 @ 11:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Director Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Brian Selznick's "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" into the fantastic film "Hugo" was a brilliant stroke of passion for the edgy director of quite a few gritty, pathologically viotent films, such as: "Mean Streets," "Taxi Driver," "Raging Bull" and "Goodfellas."
Published: Saturday, March 24th, 2012 @ 1:44 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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