CANADA FILMING INCENTIVES

Nova Scotia Film and Television Production Incentive Fund

Overview

Type of incentiveTax Credit
Qualifying formats
  • - Feature film - fiction (theatrical)
  • - Feature film - documentary (theatrical)
  • - TV Film or TV series - fiction
  • - TV Film or TV series - documentary
  • - Music videos
Qualifying productions
  • - National productions
  • - Co-productions

Specifics

Benefit as a % of spend32.00
Financial cap per production-
Do I have to register/set up a company?Yes
Does foreign cast/crew paid in their home country/region qualify as expenditure? No
Do foreign cast/crew have to pay tax in the host country/state/region? No
Does travel to/from country/region qualify as expenditure? Yes
Can a production qualify for other national incentives such as cultural programmes if it qualifies for this incentive? Yes
Criteria to access the benefit
  • - Minimum percentage of the film that must be shot in the region: 0.00%
  • - Minimum spend 25000 (in local currency)
When will the benefit/incentive be received?
  • - State approx. number of months after completion of audited accounts
  • - End of national fiscal year
Additional incentives or advantages
  • - VAT / GST /Sales Tax recoverable
  • - Rece tour assistance, location finding service
  • - Companies must register or set up a company, or work with a registered Nova Scotia producer, PM or line producer. For shoots of more than 30 days, you will receive 1% additional funding. Productions that benefited from the incentive:
    - Pure
    - The Lighthouse
    - Let's Get Physical
    - Trailer Park Boys
    - Locke & Key
    - Mr. D
    - The Mist
    - The Curse of Oak Island

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