Wisconsin Film Incentives

Wisconsin Economic Incentives For The Film & Television Industry

Effective January 1st, 2008

For bridge incentive packages please contact Film Wisconsin

An investment tax credit of 25% that can be claimed for investing in Wisconsin based productions
A comprehensive sales and use tax exemption for machinery, equipment and services used in production and post -production. A 0% tax for all film and television services contracted by out of state production companies.
A refundable tax credit of 25% of direct production expenditures for feature films, television movies, episodic and mini-series television, video games and broadcast advertising production.
A 15% state income tax credit for film, television and electronic game production businesses who make a capital investment by starting a business in Wisconsin.
Further incentives are available on a city-by-city basis including the use of State owned buildings and locations free of charge as available, no fees for permits, a dedicated "traffic control" Police Unit during daylight hours at no cost and internal accounting reports on verification of incentive savings to the production company. In many cases local "Visitors & Convention" bureaus have created special "Industry Rates" for hotel rooms that will be based on "room nights" for each production, including local hotel occupancy tax in their flat room rates to the individual production.