If Screen Australia refuses to issue an tax offset certificate to filmmakers, they can take the case to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. We now have two cases which have been concluded – but the fight continues.
Essential Media and Entertainment learnt it had lost a case at the end of January; Beyond Productions learnt it had gone down on the 31st. Wth twenty percent of the QAPE budget at stake, these are significant blows for the companies – so substantial that SPAA funded the case for Essential Media last October.
