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What is the Entertainment Registry?
A Registry of persons engaged in the Entertainment Industry was first conceived within the context of the Draft Entertainment Industry Encouragement Act (EIEA) of 2005. The National Registry of Entertainment Practitioners is intended to be a single repository of information on culture/creative industries practitioners. The Registry will act as a central portal for listing Jamaican entertainment services and companies including their key profiles and contact information.
What are the benefits of the Registry?
1) The Registry will help to rationalise the entertainment industry for greater economic benefit;
2) Authenticate the legitimacy of entertainment practitioners;
3) Facilitate efficiency and transparency within the entertainment industry;
4) Provide economic benefits to practitioners through the Fiscal Incentives Regime (Omnibus Legislation) as well as through the Regional Customs Exemptions Regime (Tools of Trade).
5) Register with the Entertainment Registry to gain access to our benefits:
- Fiscal incentive for Individuals: Fiscal Individual
- Fiscal Incentive for Companies: Fiscal Company
- Event Extension, Event Sponsorship or Work Permit Exemption click here
Who Qualifies?
All practitioners of the cultural and creative industries covering; Film, Fashion, Visual; performing arts; dance and music.
~ Quoted from https://www.mot.gov.jm/page/entertainment-registry
You can register for the entertainment registry here if you are an individual practitioner https://www.mcges.gov.jm/eregistry/registration or here if you are a company http://form.jotform.com/201016055558853
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What is a Film Co-Production?
A film co-production is a joint venture between two or more production companies, with the aim of completing or advancing a film, TV, game or animation production. The terms of the agreements vary from country to country and company to company, but it estabishes how much funding each party brings to the table, how ownership rights are split, which territories each party controls the rights to, how taxes must be split and other co-production arrangements.
What is a treaty?
A treaty, is an agreement between two or more contries to facilitate collaboration. Co-productions can happen without treaties and are called informal co-productions. This involved two or more production companies collaborating on a project, however, treaties provde the added benefit of Government concessions. One of the typical concessions is that countries will only require each organization to pay taxes in their respecting countries to eliminate having to pay taxes for everyone employed in all the participating countries. This eliminates double taxation. Another concession which is possible are rebates for productions that hire a certain percentage of employees from a particular country participating in the agreement. Not all treaties are the same and you have to check the terms of agreement with your particular agreement.
Treaties often require specialized lawyers and accountants familiar with the laws and taxation in each country. Here are details on the UK Jamaica Co-Production Treaty.
UK JAMAICA Ireland Co-Production Treaty
