Australia offers three key federal incentives (offsets) for screen productions:
✅ Maximizing Your Incentives ✅
Australian federal incentives can be combined with state incentives for even greater financial benefits.
Australia offers world-class studios, highly skilled crews, and cutting-edge post-production facilities, making it a top destination for global productions.
For expert guidance on locations, incentives, and PDV services, reach out to the respective agencies above.
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1. Producer Offset
For Australian productions and official co-productions:
40% refundable tax offset on Qualifying Australian Production Expenditure (QAPE) for feature films.
30% refundable tax offset for television and online productions.
Minimum AUD $500,000–$1M QAPE, depending on format.
Eligibility varies based on treaties for official co-productions.
🛑 Consideration: Screen Australia may require adjustments to your product to align with Australian content requirements, which could impact creative control and extend the approval timeline for your production
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2. Location Offset
For international productions filming in Australia:
30% refundable tax offset on QAPE.
Can be stacked with state and territory incentives.
Applies to feature films, telemovies, TV series (including documentary, reality, animation), and mini-series.
🛑 Consideration: High QAPE Threshold – The Location Offset requires a minimum qualifying Australian production expenditure (QAPE) of AUD 20 million, which may limit accessibility for smaller international productions.
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3. PDV and Offset
For productions completing post-production, digital, and VFX work in Australia:
30% refundable tax offset on QAPE.
No requirement to film in Australia to qualify.
Minimum AUD $500,000 QAPE on Australian PDV services.
Additional state PDV incentives up to 15%.
🛑 Consideration: Limited to PDV Work – This offset only applies to post-production, digital, and visual effects work, meaning productions that also want to access incentives for principal photography must seek additional funding sources or stack with other offsets.
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4. OffShore Standalone Offset
For international and Australian productions:
30% discount on your total VFX spend
No requirement to film in Australia to qualify
Can be combined with state and territory incentives
Applies to feature films, long-form content, telemovies, TV series (including documentary, reality, animation), mini-series, and video game cinematics
🛑Consideration: This standalone offset can be combined with the Producer Offset, Location Offset, or PDV Offset (minimum spend AUD $500,000–$1M), but those processes can take time. What we offer is a faster alternative, 30% off without needing to go through the formal federal incentive pathways.
By working directly with OffShoreVfx, you get immediate savings, no waiting, no complex applications.