UPDATE 3:30 PM SATURDAY: After Gov. Susana Martinez vetoed the measure on Friday, the state House and Senate repackaged the film and TV tax credit as part of broader legislation to provide tax cuts and other incentives for more types of business. The production tax credit will rise to 30% from 25% for a qualifying TV show producing at least six episodes in New Mexico. The extra 5% will also be available to film and TV projects that use a film studio inside the state for an extended time using some resident crew. Incentives remain capped at $50 million a year, but the revised legislation allows unused credits/subsidies of up to $10 million to be carried over to the following year — offering up to $60 million annually in some instances. The Legislature has adjourned but the governor has indicated she’s prepared to sign the bill.
PREVIOUSLY, 7:25 PM FRIDAY: Gov. Susana Martinez opposed the so-called “Breaking Bad bill” that would have raised the state’s film tax credit to 30% from 25% for TV series shooting at least six episodes in New Mexico, AP reported. Martinez told the Legislature she supports the film industry but objected to a subsidy just for Hollywood rather than making it part of an overall package of economic incentives she’s backing. With New Mexico-filmed Breaking Bad in its final season and In Plain Sight already wrapped, backers of the incentive are worried about attracting new productions. The bill’s sponsor House Majority Whip Antonio “Moe” Maestas, D-Bernalillo, said he still hoped to pass some form of the incentive before lawmakers adjourn Saturday.


Finallysomeone puts and end to the strangle hold on LA Labor.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road you have not be kind to friends of mine.
Because if any show needed subsidies it was AMC’s Breaking Bad! Ha! These moron politicians are catching on to our games. I guess we will have to abuse some other state or country. I am not satisfied until I have raped and pillaged all of them. It’s like a gold rush, grab your pail and hit the mountain, there’s gold in dem hills, and we gonna take it!
OMG! Now big stars will not donate $ to her next campaign or campaign for her. I’m sure Jon Stewart and everyone on MSNBC will punish her for not being a liberal suck-ass.
Hollywood must pay its fair share. Hollywood needs some skin in the game. No corporate welfare!
Lord Eugene, a policy like this creates jobs in the US. Allowing other companies to pay zero tax while they ship overseas is NOT paying their fair share.
Those “JOBS’? They employ people who don’t live in the tax credit giving state. People who, then, take their money OUT of said state and back to California. And the “tax credit” makes for a shortfall in said state’s revenue causing and INCREASE in state and local taxes passed on to the people who DO live in said state. THAT’S how it works, 99percent. YOU’RE 100% wrong. It’s the same corporate welfare that Hollywood Lear-jet and limousine liberals bitch about.
Taxpayer,
Your opinions are in direct conflicts to the facts.
New Mexico only gives you a tax credit on New Mexico hires,
as a producer, if I bring crew from California or elsewhere,
their wages are not subject to a tax break.
If you care about the facts, you are 100% wrong.
This is great for New Mexico and its great for America.
Yeah, you know who it’s not great for? LA! You remember, it’s where they used to make movies.
Tax credits or not, the jobs in the movie bus will still be here. It’s not that they care about the people be low the line, it’s be cause actors don’t like to work out of the country , for long periods of time.
This does not create jobs, it just move the same jobs around, depending who has the best tax credit.
A lot of the state that have tax credits are republican controlled, leave politics out out of this.
LA has been dead, with lots of people out of work in the industry, union books are full.
What is such Bullsh&t is that most of the equipment comes from California. Production companies look the other way. They rent equipment from shell NM corporations. Production companies are supposed to rent from vendors in NM. This justifies the tax credit. What really happens most is most of the equipment comes from LA vendors. They are actually committing fraud against the state of NM. The production company with executives based out of LA gets the tax credit from the taxpayers of New Mexico. Boy this is wrong
Bettheduck
I feel the same way you do only I have an equipment company that bought a piece of property and put a renal facility in NM and have companies come in and compete with us with a post office box. By the way I’m from California and still have rental facility in California.
I feel the same way you do only I have an equipment company that bought a piece of property and put a renal facility in NM and have companies come in and compete with us with a post office box. By the way I’m from California and still have rental facility in California.
Need to end all tax breaks, that way states , and Feds can save money.
Get rid of all, oil sub, all loop holes in the tax system. And also, lets outlaw lobbyists in state and federal government, it’s time for the people to get what they want, not special interest and lobbyist want.
This is terrible. These film subsidies need to stop.
Activity generates activity.
If New Mexico is going to up their credits, they better be prepared to do them for at least the next 10 years. It makes no sense to start with these and not keep them in order to maintain production business. Otherwise they will be training locals who will just be out of work and/or have to move out of state if the credits go. One of the provinces up in Canada got rid of their credits last year and killed whatever business they had, the jobs, facilities, and infrastructure were gone before they knew it.
I live in the Canadian province you are talking about, British Columbia. The idea that the business here was “killed” is nonsense. There were exactly 294 different film and TV projects in BC in 2012. American TV shows and movies are still filming here. Check out the premiere of one of them tonight on A&E, Bates Motel.
Where is the common sense is bribing out of state firms to employ out of state workers usually temporarily in your state?