Countervailing Efforts in The United States
In recent years, some members of the United States Congress have attempted to counter the runaway production situation with counter-incentives.
The American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 contained provisions allows U.S. producers of films with budgets under $15 million ($20 million if shot in a low-income neighborhood) to immediately write off their costs in a single year (if 75% of their principal costs are incurred via shooting in the U.S.) It also allows producers to be taxed at a capital gains rate of 15% (rather than at the higher 35% personal income tax rate). Previously producers had to amortize those costs over several years.
Local and state governments have also implemented counter-incentive programs in an effort to encourage domestic film productions to remain in the United States, and the federal government has attempted to rein in outsourcing with legislation to prevent what legislators describe as unfair foreign competition.
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