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California Extends Film Tax Credit Program by One Year

1 min readBy: Scott Drenkard

In California, Governor Jerry Brown has signed a one year extension of the state’s film tax credit program, stretching the effective date all the way out to July 1, 2015. The recently signed Assembly Bill 1069 will allocate an additional $100 million to a program that already has $400 million committed to it.

Felipe Fuentes, the author of the bill commented, “By creating tens of thousands of jobs and pumping billions into our economy, the film and television tax credit program has truly been a statewide economic stimulus package.”

But as the TaxA tax is a mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state, and national governments from individuals or businesses to cover the costs of general government services, goods, and activities. Foundation has reported, film tax incentives often create only temporary job positions, and tend to feature bloated job creation claims.

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Scott Drenkard Tax Foundation

Scott Drenkard

Former Director of State Projects

Scott was the director of state projects for the Tax Foundation. His analysis of tax and spending policy has been featured hundreds of times in media outlets across the country and Scott has given legislative testimony or presented to officials in 26 states and before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee.