CANADA FILMING INCENTIVES

Quebec: Production Services Tax Credit

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
  • - Post production/special effects for film & tv (fiction)
Qualifying productions
  • - National productions
  • - Foreign productions
  • - Co-productions

Specifics

Benefit as a % of spend36.00
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 total value of production 250000 (in local currency)
  • - Use Local cast & Crew
When will the benefit/incentive be received?
  • - End of national fiscal year
Additional incentives or advantages
  • - Rece tour assistance, location finding service
  • - • The base 20% refundable tax credit applies to all-spend production costs including qualified labour costs (broad notion) and costs of qualified properties. •VR/AR is a qualifying format • The improvement for computer-aided special effects and animation adds a 16% top up on qualified labour costs directly attributable to qualified activities provided a maximum 36% credit. This includes Computer-aided special effects and animation & shooting of scenes in front of a chroma-key screen activities. The incentive can be combined with Canada's federal incentive.

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