| Benefit as a % of spend | 25.00 |
| Financial cap per production | - |
| Do I have to register/set up a company? | Yes |
| Does foreign cast/crew paid in their home country/region qualify as expenditure? | No |
| Do foreign cast/crew have to pay tax in the host country/state/region? | Yes |
| Does travel to/from country/region qualify as expenditure? | No |
| Can a production qualify for other national incentives such as cultural programmes if it qualifies for this incentive? | No |
| Criteria to access the benefit | - - Minimum percentage of the film that must be shot in the region: 75.00%
- - Use Local cast & Crew
- - Cultural Test
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| When will the benefit/incentive be received? | - - End of national fiscal year
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| Additional incentives or advantages | - - VAT / GST /Sales Tax recoverable
- - Rece tour assistance, location finding service
- - In Canada the goods and services tax or GST is a federal tax of 6% on most goods and services sold in Canada. Some goods and services are exempt from GST.
Provincial sales tax or PST rates differ from province to province. If you are fortunate enough to be doing business in Alberta, Yukon, Nanavut or the Northwest Territories there is no PST. In the rest of the country, the provincial sales tax situation is more complicated. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador operate under a "harmonised" tax system. When buying goods and services in these provinces, instead of being charged GST and PST separately, you will be charged HST (Harmonized Sales Tax) of 14%. All other provinces treat the provincial sales tax as separate from the GST, the federal tax. To make matters even more confusing, some provinces refer to their provincial sales tax systems as Retail Sales Taxes (Ontario) or Social Services Taxes (British Columbia) instead of as PST and Quebec has its own tax entirely (QST).
The provincial sales tax (PST) rate differs from province to province and is even calculated differently in different provinces. For instance, in Ontario, the provincial sales tax rate is 8%, which is charged on the selling price of the item before the GST is applied. In British Columbia the PST rate is 7%, in Saskatchewan the PST rate is 6%, in Manitoba the PST rate is 7%, and the provinces that use HST all do the same. In Quebec and Prince Edward Island, the provincial sales tax is charged on the total selling price plus GST.
While PST is referred to as a Retail Sales Tax in many provinces, that doesn't mean that the PST only applies to retail businesses. Provincial sales taxes are charged on retail goods and services.
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