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Michael Moore's Anti-Greed Film May Receive Michigan Tax Credit
The Mackinac Center checked with the Michigan Film Office and learned that a "production person" had applied for a state tax credit for Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story," partly filmed in MichiganThe liberal documentary filmmaker Michael Moore has been a critic of state tax credits for Hollywood films, but did one of his own films benefit from one of those credits in his home state of Michigan? It seems so, according to a report by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and educational institute focusing on issues in Michigan. The center checked with the Michigan Film Office and learned that a "production person" had applied for one of the tax credits for "Capitalism: A Love Story," Moore's 2009 film about corporate greed, parts of which were filmed in Michigan. The state offers refundable tax credits of up to 42 percent to film productions for shooting movies and spending money in Michigan -- an incentive similar to one offered by numerous other states to entice Hollywood and bolster the local economy. Posted by: wr 2010-01-30 |
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