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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Hollywood asks California to cut taxes — for the film industry
You know things are bad when Hollywood liberals are asking California for a
tax break.
Film Works, an entertainment-industry advocate organization, recently
launched an online petition asking California’s film and TV enthusiasts to
lobby lawmakers to create greater incentives for production to stay within
state borders.
While operating costs in California have grown more expensive over the past
decade, other states and countries have established film tax credits in an
effort to bring production to their territory.
If California does not pass similar legislation, Film Works warns, the state
will lose hold of one of its most iconic industries.
“We are now greatly concerned that the state’s status as the epicenter for
motion picture production is at risk,” the petition reads.
“If policymakers fail to make our state more competitive, the film industry
in California will face the same fate as other industries, including
aerospace, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of jobs permanently
leaving California for other states.”
“It’s time for California to wake up,” reads one of the organization’s
blog posts.
The industry’s decline in the Golden State has been difficult for
individuals working in the entertainment industry to ignore.
From 2005 to 2013, California’s share of the one-hour TV series market
declined from 64 percent to 28 percent, resulting in the loss of an
estimated 8,500 jobs, the Film Works petition notes.
According to a report conducted by the San Francisco Film Commission, these
job losses not only impact those who were formerly employed, but take a
negative toll on the economy as a whole. The study found that every job lost
in the film industry results in a loss of $112,000 in spending in the local
economy.
And in the past 15 years, feature-film production in Los Angeles alone has
declined almost 60 percent.
In an attempt to curve the drop in production, California passed a $100
million film tax incentive in 2009, but it was not enough to keep producers
within state borders.
A growing list of states, including Georgia, Louisiana and New York, have
established tax incentives that far exceed those passed in California.
These business-friendly policies have added millions to states’ economies.
Louisiana is just one example of this phenomenon. The year before it enacted
its tax credit (2002), production spending in Louisiana was only $3.5
million. By 2010, that figure had jumped to $674 million, making for a 19,
000-percent increase.
Many leading businesses and organizations involved in the entertainment
industry recognize how California’s tax-heavy policies are threatening the
survival of the film industry and have thus aligned themselves with Film
Works, demanding that California Gov. Jerry Brown sign into law legislation
that will re-energize one of the state’s major cash industries.
Among many others, the petition’s supporters include Warner Bros, FilmLA,
the city and county of Los Angeles, and the national labor union
representing working actors, SAG-AFTRA.
Although Hollywood is still recognized as the mecca for actors and directors
, some worry that this legacy may soon become a distant memory.
“It is hard to call yourself the capital when you are making less than half
of the product,” the president of FilmLa inc. Paul Audley noted about
California’s waning industry in an interview with Film Works.
“We do not have much time left to bring this industry back and keep it here
before the infrastructure, the crews, the vendors, and the studio systems
have moved out of the state and then we have nothing left for this industry
to call home,” he added. | p**j
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: Hollywood asks California to cut taxes — for the film industry
: You know things are bad when Hollywood liberals are asking California for a
: tax break.
: Film Works, an entertainment-industry advocate organization, recently
: launched an online petition asking California’s film and TV enthusiasts to
: lobby lawmakers to create greater incentives for production to stay within
: state borders.
: While operating costs in California have grown more expensive over the past
: decade, other states and countries have established film tax credits in an
: effort to bring production to their territory.
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