What Nunavut actually pays
A cash payment back on qualified spend, usually after an audit. Like a grant in practice, though often funded from a capped pool.
New to the mechanics? Tax credit vs rebate vs grant and What counts as qualified spend.
The rule to remember
Nunavut DOES have an incentive; do not treat it as a null. Stream II at 17% is open to southern producers. Discretionary, annual envelope unpublished. Series funding decays from 100% to zero by season six. Base rate recorded as the 17% a visiting producer can actually reach.
Common questions
- What is the Nunavut film tax incentive rate?
- Nunavut offers 17% to 27% on qualified in-state spend through the Nunavut Spend Incentive Program (NSIP). It is a rebate. A cash payment back on qualified spend, usually after an audit. Like a grant in practice, though often funded from a capped pool.
- Is the Nunavut film incentive transferable or refundable?
- Neither transferable nor refundable, which limits its value to productions with in-state tax liability.
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%.
Massachusetts
25%Transferable creditMinnesota
25%Transferable creditNorth Carolina
25%RebateNevada
15%up to 25%Transferable credit
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Tracking changes to this program?
We re-verify Nunavut against the film office and the statute, and write when something moves that would change a budget. One email, no cadence you didn't ask for.