MA Film Tax Credit program grows our economy

One of MALC’s priorities is protecting the State’s Film Tax Credit program which has helped our State’s arts, culture and creative economy grow.

Please read the Mass Production Coalition’s statement about the Governor’s call to end the program and stay tuned for what you can do to help protect this important needed program for our Commonwealth.

Statement of Massachusetts Production Coalition on
Governor Baker’s Proposal for the
Film & Television Production Incentive

March 4, 2015

Massachusetts doesn’t have to put one group of people out of work to help another group struggling to get ahead. Expanding the earned income tax credit is important, but kicking the strong and growing film and television production industry out of our state will only hurt our economy and result in thousands of Massachusetts jobs lost.

Even critics of the production incentive acknowledge that the film tax credit is the primary reason film and television companies come to Massachusetts.

Eliminating the Massachusetts film and television production incentive will drive jobs created by the production of motion pictures and television shows to competing states. It will destroy a growing local industry and cost thousands of local jobs with absolutely no benefit to the state budget or the working poor.

Margie Sullivan
President of the Massachusetts Production Coalition
Executive Producer at Redtree Productions, a commercial production company in Boston

[note color=”#ffeb99″]For additional insight, please read the March 4, 2015, Boston Herald story:
Coming detraction: Film tax credit ax?
http://www.bostonherald.com/inside_track/the_inside_track/2015/03/coming_detraction_film_tax_credit_ax [/note]