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Estimated total tax credits: $700,000 (35.0% effective rate against gross budget).
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The Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit (CPTC) is 25% of qualified Canadian labour expenditure, capped at 60% of net production cost. CPTC requires CAVCO certification with at least 6 of 10 points for content Canadian-ness.
The Production Services Tax Credit (PSTC) is 16% of qualified Canadian labour expenditure (no cap), for foreign service productions where Canadian content rules are not met. PSTC stacks with provincial service credits without the CAVCO requirement.
BC Film + TV Tax Credit (PSTC): 28% of qualified BC labour. Regional bonus +6% outside metro Vancouver. Distant Location +6% in qualifying remote regions. Stack with federal CPTC for Canadian content or PSTC for service work.
Ontario PSTC: 21.5% of qualified Ontario labour for service productions. OFTTC: 35% (40% for first-time producers) of qualified Ontario labour for Canadian-content productions, with a regional 10% bonus outside the GTA.
QPSTC: 20% of qualified Quebec spend (broader base than just labour), with bonuses for VFX/animation, regional, and minority co-production. CRC tax credit: 35% of qualified Quebec labour for Canadian-content productions.
Alberta (FTFV): 22 to 30%. Manitoba (MFTTC): up to 30% of all-spend or 45% of labour. Saskatchewan: variable production grants. Maritimes: NS 25%, NL 25%, NB and PEI offer smaller credits or grants. Always verify with the provincial agency the month you apply.
Federal and provincial credits are not mutually exclusive. A BC feature usually claims CPTC (federal) and BC PSTC (provincial), then adds Regional + Distant bonuses if eligible. The combined effective rate on qualifying labour can exceed 50% of labour spend, which translates to ~25 to 35% of total budget depending on labour-to-total ratio.
It estimates the federal + provincial labour credit using a simplified labour-percent-of-budget model. It does not compute: CAVCO eligibility (you need to run the 10-point grid), refundability versus tax-offset behaviour for non-refundable portions, withholding for non-resident labour, GST/HST/PST treatment of credits, financing-letter discount rates for cashing credits before the audit completes, or qualified-spend treatment for tax credits like Quebec's QPSTC that include non-labour categories. For the real numbers you want a producer who has filed a few. That is the lane Matista builds in.