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How to Get Your Payroll Ready for Year-End: A Guide for UK Productions
Find out how UK production teams can streamline their year-end payroll and ensure a smooth transition to the new tax year. With the UK tax year ending on April 5, now is the time to get your final production payroll in order so that you can ensure your records are up to date and start the new tax year off on the right…
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How to Manage Residuals: A Quick-Guide to North America, the UK and Australia
Your quick-guide overview of how residuals are managed in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Residuals are ongoing payments designed to compensate writers, actors, directors, and others when their work in a movie, television show, or internet production gets rerun on a different channel or reused…
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Watch Now | Budgeting for 2025: What UK Productions Need to Know
If you’re filming in the UK in 2025 there are some significant legislative changes going into effect April 1st that you need to know about. EP's Experts are here to help! In this webinar EP’s team of production experts discuss upcoming changes in the UK, including increases to employer contributions for the UK’s National…
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Ask the Experts – Budgeting for UK Productions in 2025
Thank you for attending this week’s Master Series: Budgeting for 2025: What UK Productions Need to Know It was great to see so many of you in the audience! We covered a lot in the webinar. If you have questions about anything we discussed, please post a comment below and our experts will provide more insights. You may also…
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Register Now! Budgeting for 2025: What UK Productions Need to Know
The UK government has introduced new tax requirements that will directly affect payroll budgets in 2025 and beyond. How will they impact your production? In this webinar you’ll learn from EP’s team of production experts about critical changes you need to know about, including increases in employers’ National Insurance…
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UK Tax Increases Impacting Film & TV Production Budgets in 2025
Learn how changes to UK payroll taxes and minimum wage rates will affect new and existing productions from April 2025. On October 30, 2024 the UK’s new Labour government announced its first Budget, in which it set out its plan to raise £40b in taxes. In line with its New Deal for Working People, the government made no…
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Generative AI Costs Deemed Eligible VFX Spend: What Does the UK's Enhanced Rate Mean for Productions
Learn how the incoming VFX incentive rate, including the eligibility of generative AI costs, will work in practice. In the Autumn 2024 budget, UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves and HMRC and the Treasury brought welcome clarity as to the incoming enhancement of the VFX incentive rate that was initially announced in the March 2024…
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New UK Employment Rights Bill: What Does it Mean for Film & TV Freelancers?
The highly anticipated Employment Rights Bill makes some major changes to UK employment law. But what does it mean for self-employed individuals in the creative industries? On October 10 the UK government published the Employment Rights Bill, legislation which stems from many years’ work by the trade union movement around…
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UK Independent Film Tax Credit (IFTC) Approved: Key Updates for Producers
The UK government has passed the new Independent Film Tax Credit (IFTC) into law, providing welcome clarity on the qualifying criteria and director/scriptwriter conditions. On October 9, 2024 the UK government formally passed the Statutory Instrument finalising and bringing into law in full the Independent Film Tax…
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Film London Production Finance Market Opens with Keynote on the IFTC UK tax credit...
While we'd probably rather shoot in the US, it's good to know the tax credits available internationally. You can also do a deeper dive with EP's webinar on boosting your budget with UK's Independent Film Tax Credit.