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Italy’s Deputy Culture Minister Unrealistically Assures Production Tax Rebates Favoring Local Talent Will Be Effective This Month
Italy's Deputy Culture Minister Lucia Borgonzoni is assuring delayed production tax rebates favouring local talent will be effective this month.
In the past two years the country has hosted “The White Lotus” Season 2, Steven Zaillian’s “Ripley,” and Amazon Prime’s upcoming gladiator series “Those About to Die,” which was fully shot at Cinecittà. Speaking at the AVPSummit, an international TV industry event held this week in Italy’s Southern Calabria region, Borgonzoni – a longtime local industry advocate who is in charge of Italy’s cinema department –said the long-awaited tax credit faucet, known locally as the “window,” will be launched this month. But it also seems that the money will be reduced from 40% to 30% for international productions that don’t use local talents, as Borgonzoni jingoistically tells Variety in a one-on-one interview at the AVPSummit.
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