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Tax Breaks: The Devil Is In The Detail
High-end TV tax breaks will be a real boost to domestic production but not everyone is guaranteed to benefit…

By
Paul Robson

U

nless you’ve been living under
a rock for the past few months
you’ll know that the UK government
is now providing tax breaks for highend TV production. It’s a scheme
that I wholeheartedly support and
one that will doubtless provide huge
benefi ts for both the broadcast
sector and the UK economy.
However, while there are many,
many positives, I am starting to
wonder whether the qualification
parameters that Her Majesty’s
Treasury has set might prevent the
tax break from benefitting everyone
in the broadcast food chain.
Before we get onto that, a quick
update. Although it won’t be passed
as law until July, the scheme is
already up and running, offering
a 25% rebate on 80% of the core

HBO fantasy drama ‘Game of Thrones’ generated roughly £65m for the
local economy

budget of any drama, comedy or
documentary series that costs more
than £1m per hour. Each production
must spend at least 25% of its
money here and the show itself must
pass a cultural test.
In principle it’s a wonderful
thing. For many years it has been
suggested that we need an incentive
that will attract overseas producers
and also stop big British drama
producers from spending their
budget in countries like South
Africa and Hungary that already
offer subsidies.
You only have to look at the impact
that Game of Thrones has made

on Belfast to see how influential
it could be. The first three series
of the HBO fantasy drama, shot in
Northern Ireland (NI) and funded
in part by NI Screen and Invest NI,
generated roughly £65m for the local
economy. It provides jobs, business
for suppliers and profile.
This sounds great but if you
provide post-production facilities
I wouldn’t start ramping up your
kit inventory or adding additional
suites just yet.
Because of the £1m-an-hour floor,
not all shows will qualify. There are
a whole host of productions in the
£600k to £800k budget bracket –

including many primetime BBC
and ITV shows – that will never get
anywhere near that figure even with
a lot of back-end finance.
So that means the tax credit is
somewhat skewed in favour of big
budget US dramas.
Which is fine but while we benefit
from a guaranteed 25% of the
budget being spent here, because
they don’t have to spend all of it and
they can only claim for 80%, they
could conceivably still take things
like post-production and visual
effects back to the US with them or
to places that offer credit on 100%.
Similarly, the 25% threshold
for UK expenditure might prevent
producers coming here to do just
their post-production. I think a figure
of 10% would have been better.
Hopefully I am wrong and that
such concerns will not come to
pass and instead the UK will start
to make even more ambitious and
bigger dramas (costing £1m an hour
of course) which sell all around the
world, and “that’s to everyone’s
benefit, Lady Mary”.

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InNews: Rogers Opts for Quantel at City Montreal
InNews: Vizrt and Mosart Enter Newsroom Partnership
InForm: Istreamplanet Live-Video Workflow
InReply: BSI Wireless Camera Captures the Action
InFocus: Sound Devices Pix 240 Sprints Ahead
InView: Bradley Engineering Focuses on Remote Camera Control Systems
InView: Government Tax Breaks: The Devil Is in the Detail
InMedia: In Demand Uses Aja to Create Promotional Content
InMedia: Ihse Draco Kvm-Matrix Switchers Support Broadcast It Workflow
InMedia: Media Production - the Next Generation
In Broadcast - June 2013 - Intro
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In Broadcast - June 2013 - Cover2
In Broadcast - June 2013 - Contents
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In Broadcast - June 2013 - InReply: BSI Wireless Camera Captures the Action
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In Broadcast - June 2013 - InView: Government Tax Breaks: The Devil Is in the Detail
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In Broadcast - June 2013 - InMedia: In Demand Uses Aja to Create Promotional Content
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In Broadcast - June 2013 - InMedia: Ihse Draco Kvm-Matrix Switchers Support Broadcast It Workflow
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In Broadcast - June 2013 - InMedia: Media Production - the Next Generation
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