Toronto offers generous and bankable tax incentives – from two levels of government. Both the Ontario (provincial) and Canadian (federal) governments operate rich incentive programs for film and television production expenses.

Eligible expenses include:

• Labour
• Equipment purchase or rental
• Visual effects (VFX)
• Computer animation
• Canadian content (CanCon)

All applicable tax credits are bankable with Canadian financial institutions and are managed swiftly and accurately so that you can have access to financing for your production while it's in progress.

Ontario services a 21.5% tax credit for eligible film and television productions. The federal government also offers an additional tax credit of 16% for service productions.

For domestic productions and co-productions, Ontario provides a 35% tax credit on eligible Ontario labour expenditures with an additional 10% regional bonus. The federal government also offers 25% (for domestic productions) on Canadian labour costs.

An additional 18% is provided for eligible labour on VFX and animation activities in Ontario including on-set labour costs for green-screen shooting.

Ontario offers some of the world’s best and most varied locations. Toronto easily doubles for other major North American cities such as NYC, Chicago, Detroit or LA.