David Bruggeman wrote: > > I've heard idle speculation that the promised job impacts based on the tax > credits are comparable to the touted benefits of publicly financed > stadiums. That is, overblown. Is anyone familiar with research in this > area? > > Commenters to this WaPost piece analyzing the production-credit process<http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/how-did-house-of-cards-get-millions-in-maryland-tax-credits/2014/02/21/c1eb375c-9b16-11e3-975d-107dfef7b668_story.html>(caution: soft paywall?) include some who feel the same way.
This 2012 letter from the California Legislative Analyst's Office to a member of that state's Senate is about a study by a UCLA branch of the LA Economic Development Corp's study of the latest data available regarding their production credit. Among the UCLA findings: the EDC's presumption that credit-less productions would leave Cali is not true. Among the LAO's findings: the net benefit from the credit was likely much less than UCLA reported. http://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2012/stadm/letters/evaluate-film-tax-credit-061312.pdf B -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
