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One budget, five states.
The same qualifying spend, run through each state's actual program rules by the same engine as our per-state calculators — so the differences you see are the programs', not the arithmetic's.
Same budget in every column: each state's default project type, no uplifts, residency gates assumed met, transferable credits discounted to 90 cents on the dollar. This ranks starting points — open a state's own calculator for uplifts, gates and tier detail.
| Best net cash | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Estimated net cash | $1,000,000 | $1,260,000 | $1,102,500 |
| Rate applied | 40% | 40% | 35% |
| Headline rate | 40%up to 50% | 40% | 35%up to 65% |
| Mechanism | Non-transferable credit | Transferable credit | Transferable credit |
| Minimum spend | $500K scripted film/TV; $100K non-scripted/games/animation/commercials; $50K post | $50K PR Production Expenditures per project; $25K for short films and documentaries; $100K aggregated for commercial campaigns or bundled post-production (§2091.01(a)(1)) | $100K |
| Per-project cap | None in statute; programmatic cap: QPE limited to first $1M per qualified position per production/episode | None on the 40%/20% legs. 15% domestic-producer uplift capped at $4M/project; all domestic-spend credits ≤55% of domestic PR spend (§3050.01(c)(3)). TV programs $100K/program ($300K/yr pool); live shows $50K/show ($200K/yr) per CC 2026-003. | None |
| Detail | Full TN calculator → | Full PR calculator → | Full IL calculator → |
Estimates, not quotes. Annual caps, application queues and payment timing sit between these numbers and a bank account — and they differ by state as much as the rates do.
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.
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