What Bosnia and Herzegovina actually pays
No statewide film incentive. City or county programs may still apply.
City, county & regional programs
Local incentives that can stack on top of the state program — but each defines its own qualified spend, caps and residency rules, so their rates can't simply be added to the state percentage. Worth a call before you count on one.
- 30%
Republika Srpska Cash Rebate
Up to 30% of eligible costs spent in Republika Srpska, one of the two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The detailed definition of eligible costs is set by the entity government decree on incentives for investors producing audiovisual works in Republika Srpska. [basis: qualified-spend]
Minimum spend: Budget earmarked for Republika Srpska must exceed: feature film, docudrama or TV film BAM 500,000; TV series BAM 200,000 per episode; animated series BAM 150,000; animated feature film or audio and/or visual post-production BAM 150,000; commercial BAM 300,000; documentary film or documentary TV program BAM 50,000; short animated film BAM 50,000
The rule to remember
Bosnia and Herzegovina has no state-level or Federation-level rebate on production spend. Incentives are local: Republika Srpska runs its own cash rebate for spend in that entity, and Sarajevo Canton has run incentive calls for film production in the canton.
Common questions
- Does Bosnia and Herzegovina have a film tax incentive?
- Bosnia and Herzegovina has no statewide film incentive as of our last review on 2026-09-30. City or county programs may still apply, and neighboring states often do offer programs worth structuring around.
Verify before you budget. These figures come from our own incentives database and each shows when it was last reviewed — but programs change between funding cycles and legislative sessions. Confirm with the film office, or ask us, before a number goes into a budget.
Compare with
Programs in a similar rate band. The mechanism matters as much as the percentage — a transferable credit at 30% is not the same money as a cash grant at 30%.
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