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Reason
Entertainment
Eric Boehm

Georgia Taxpayers Lose $160,000 for Every Job Created by Film Tax Credits

For nearly two decades, Georgia has lured big-time Hollywood movie studios with the promise of lucrative tax breaks for filming in the state.

And here's a predictable plot twist: Handing out welfare to wildly successful movies—like Avengers: Endgame, which earned more than $2 billion at the box office but nevertheless also qualified for tax credits because it was filmed in Georgia—hasn't been a good deal for taxpayers.

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