Incentives bid for film production reels in county backing

Written by Richard Battin on February 14, 2023

If you’re seeing the Georgia Peach icon scroll by at the end of more movies these days, it’s because Georgia, as well as two other southern states, have created movie-industry incentives after Florida let its own film rebate program expire in 2016.

Miami-Dade County commissioners voted unanimously last week on a resolution sponsored by Sen. René García to urge the state to restore an entertainment tax credit program “to enhance the state economy by incentivizing the film, television and digital industry,”

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