Steven Feinberg
Director
Rhode Island Film & Television Office
One Capitol Hill
Providence, RI 02908
Phone: 401-222-3456 (222-FILM)
Fax: 401-222-3018
Email: Steven@arts.ri.gov
http://www.rifilm.com/
Arts Office - http://www.arts.ri.gov/
East
Coast Hollywood
Proposed tax incentives aim to fix Rhode Island as one of the most
competitive locations for film and television productions.By Emily LysaghtRhode
Island's action-packed promotion.[Click to enlarge]Is Rhode Island on the
brink of becoming the next Hollywood? The buzz around the Ocean State is
that it will at least give Tinseltown a run for its money if new legislation
recently announced is passed. At a March press conference complete with
popcorn, movie clips, and directorís chairs, Speaker of the House William
J. Murphy announced new legislation that would provide tax incentives to
film and television companies who bring their productions to Rhode Island.
Under the new bill (2005 - H6201), production companies would not have
to pay the stateís 7-percent sales tax if they spend at least $300,000
and will also be exempt from paying most of Rhode Islandís 6-percent hotel
tax. To the delight of the stateís crew base, there is also an incentive
to hire locally with an employment tax credit that would exempt companies
from 10 to 20 percent of its payroll taxes for all Rhode Island citizens
who they employ...............Read
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4/6/05
Hearing Notice: House Finance Committee to hear TV, movie tax credits bill
STATE HOUSE ? Legislation that will offer a variety of tax credits
to TV and movie companies filming in Rhode Island will be heard by the
House Committee on Finance on Thursday, April 7.Introduced by Speaker of
the House William J. Murphy and outlined during a news conference last
month, attended by Rhode Island film notables Bobby Farrelly and Michael
Corrente, the bill proposes a number of tax credits intended to make Rhode
Island the top destination for the film and TV industry on the East Coat.
Among the tax credits proposed by the bill are: sales and use tax credits
for companies that spend more than $300,000 in direct connection with filming
in Rhode Island; hotel tax credits for out-of-state companies that stay
in Rhode Island for more than 30 days during production; employment tax
credits for the employment of Rhode Island residents in connection with
the production, and investor and motion picture company tax credits against
state income tax and business corporate taxes.ìThis aggressive legislation
providing tax incentives to film and TV companies makes Rhode Island the
most attractive state on the East Coast and we will now be able to compete
with a few other states in other parts of the country, as well as Canada,
to enable us to attract our share of this lucrative market,î said Speaker
Murphy, who will lead off the testimony on behalf of the bill.................READ
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Rhode Island Appoints
New Film Commissioner March 2004
And
Here is another Article about the New Film Commissioner
ARTICLE
from 1999 in Movie Maker Magazine:
".............
ìWeíre one of the last utopias, population-wise, that lets you get
around without hitting major traffic tie-ups. Our airport (Green Airport,
Providence) has recently been renovated, so you can get in and out without
the whole ìLaGuardia/Logan-styleî experience. The whole State can be accessed
in a half-hour in any direction, and itís part of New England, where you
have that quaintness but also the sophistication of a town like Newport.î...................READ
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