Mayor Karen Bass is issuing a directive aimed at bringing more film and TV production work back to Hollywood.
Bass plans to cut red tape to make it cheaper and easier for production companies to shoot in Los Angeles. She also wants the state legislature to increase tax credits for filming in California.
J. Christopher Hamilton, a professor at Syracuse University, told KNX News’ Jon Baird these are good ideas – but perhaps too little, too late.
“The tax incentives need to be more competitive, obviously, with other parts of the western hemisphere, particularly, you know, within the U.S. and even in Canada,” he said.
He believes that the state needs to remove its annual $330 million cap on these tax incentives to bring more work back to California, like lawmakers did in Georgia.
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Bass will hold a news conference Tuesday morning to lay out the details of her directive.
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