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NY Times | Gone With the Cash: Films Go for the Best Tax Breaks | By Lisa W. Foderaro | Published: March 29, 2008 | White Plains, NY

“Martin Scorsese’s crime drama The Departed may be a paean to the city of Boston, but a number of scenes featuring Leonardo DiCaprio were shot at the county courthouse and library here. It was a surprisingly apt title, since 2007, the year “The Departed” won the Academy Award for Best Picture, was also the year that many film and television shoots departed — for Connecticut.”

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New York State’s 10% vs. neighboring states’ production tax incentives comparison (…via Times article):

Connecticut = 30%

Massachussetts = 25%

New Jersey = 20%

note: Pennsylvania offers a 25% max production tax incentive with a state-wide annual cap of $75m per PA Film Office’s Economic Incentives.

Spoiler:

CT is currently biting New York’s (as well as other neighboring states’) heels with aggressive film and production incentives.

Flip side:

Connecticut as an entire state does not have the diversity of locations or depth of local crew resources as New York City, the lower Hudson Valley, northern NJ or western Long Island

Look at the bottom of the Times article for past coverage and related searches

filming tax incentives content elsewhere on nyc.locationscout.us…

Links of likely further resource value:

Connecticut Film Office

New York State Film Office

New York City Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater and Broadcast (MOFTB)

Westchester County, NY Film Office

Nassau County Long Island Film Office

New Jersey Film Commission

Massachussetts Film Bureau

Pennsylvania State Film Office

Hollywood Reporter

Variety

Shoot Online

Internet Movie Database

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