Early in the session of the 2023-2024 legislative session the Georgia House of Representatives introduced House Bill 1180 revamping the state's film tax credit. While this change isn't nearly as radical as North Carolina's mistake from a decade or more ago. Or Louisiana's changes from a few years back; it is still worth worrying about. In an industry as finicky as ours, change isn't necessarily good. Especially when it's financial change. And what I am struggling to understand is why? The link below shows that a large majority of voters support the current tax credit system and also think the incentive is vital to our strong state economy. So why is the house even concerned? Has the Georgia House of Representatives been infected with the mind virus that infects most of our legislators in DC? The virus that causes them to not listen to their constituents? The session ends this week. The Senate has read the bill and is has passed committee with some changes. Still in place though is the doubling of production spend required to qualify. I'm afraid a lot of our smaller productions may go elsewhere if this passes. And a lot of us rely on these smaller productions. This small business does a lot of work with smaller productions and relies on them to fund investments to grow this business. Here is hoping the State Senate allows this one to just die on the floor this week. Call your Senator and ask them to do exactly that.
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