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Do you have a problem with that?
Read more: http://www.adn.com/2011/02/18/171119...#ixzz1KCGFr0pwPalin's reality show will receive $1.2 million in film tax credits
By KYLE HOPKINS
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Published: February 19th, 2011 12:26 AM
Last Modified: February 19th, 2011 05:17 PM
"Sarah Palin's Alaska," the TLC reality show starring the former governor in her home state, will receive about $1.2 million in tax credits for filming in Alaska, the state says.
Under a state subsidy created by the Legislature in 2008 and signed into law by Palin, Alaska allows film and TV producers to recover 30 percent or more of the money they spend on filming in the state.
All told, the Palin show spent $3.6 million in Alaska, the state says.
TV and movie-makers may not have a significant tax liability in Alaska but can sell their credits at a discount to corporations that do. The tax revenue would have otherwise gone into state coffers...
Do you have a problem with that?
Me personally? No.
A lot of states (including Texas) give production companies incentives to shoot in their state because they employ people and leave a lot of money in the state. In Alaska as an example they hired an unemployed Alaskan housewife named Sara...
Amusing, yes.
The irony is pretty hard to miss.
Where would they have filmed "Sarah Palin's Alaska" had Alaska not bribed them to film there?
Alaska, on a drastically smaller budget?
signed into law by palin
Add soothsayer to her credits.
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