Senate questions screen offset tax secrecy provisions

The long-standing tax secrecy provisions that prohibit identifying which productions receive hundreds of millions of dollars in screen offsets has been questioned in a Senate estimates hearing.

Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young contrasted the way most government funding for specific companies was disclosed allowing for an independent assessment to ensure it was being used effectively. By way of contrast, the Producer, Location and PDV Offsets reside within tax legislation, although aggregated data is published each year for each s...