Word: taxed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Other states, including New Mexico and Louisiana, have long wooed producers with tax incentives. And for a few years, it seemed as if every "New York" movie was filmed in either Vancouver or Toronto. But the Canadian exchange rate doesn't favor Hollywood anymore, and Michigan's tax rebate of up to 42% for productions that hire locally is the most generous in the country. Nearly 70 movies - including Clint Eastwood's 2008 hit Gran Torino - have been shot or been scheduled to be filmed here since the state passed its tax breaks last April. In 2007 film crews spent...
...tax incentives are in part the brainchild of Jim Burnstein, a screenwriter who teaches in the University of Michigan's Film and Video Studies Program. He grew tired of watching his students decamp for New York City and Los Angeles on graduation. The Michigan Film Commission, of which Burnstein is a member, had been "looking into how to attract Hollywood," he says. "But this wasn't just about bringing money into the state. It was a matter of the taxpayers we were already losing." Tena Constas is one of those prodigal Michiganders, a location scout for Betty Anne Waters...
...Massachusetts House approved a plan to raise the sales tax from 5 to 6.25 percent on Monday night, a hike that officials said represents a trade off between preventing cuts in services and hurting the local economy...
...sales tax increase—proposed by House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo—will raise an additional $900 million annually in revenue, helping to bridge Massachusetts’ projected $3.6 billion deficit for fiscal year...
Under the plan, $200 million of the new revenue would go to towns and communities for local aid, and $275 million would go to transportation. The sales tax hike stands in contrast to the House’s initial state budget, released on April 15, which did not draw from new sources of revenue or state reserves and included wide cuts to local aid, services, and programs...