Headline rate, caps, minimum spend, payroll fringe, and the official film office for Missouri. Reference data for producers, line producers, and financiers structuring a Missouri shoot.
Multiple stackable uplifts (rural, script, KC/STL)
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Missouri's Show-MO Act (2023) offers a 20% base non-transferable credit on qualifying in-state expenditures, stackable to approximately 42% with uplifts for rural-county filming, in-state screenplay origination, Kansas City or St. Louis metro production, and resident hires. The $16 million annual cap and $8 million per-project cap prevent a single large production from exhausting the fund, and the minimum spend is $50,000 for projects under 30 minutes and $100,000 for longer formats. Kansas City and St. Louis anchor the state's production infrastructure, with active IATSE locals in both cities and growing stage availability. The non-transferable structure means the credit applies only against the production company's own Missouri tax liability, which requires careful entity structuring for maximum benefit. Missouri's central location, low cost of living, and diverse urban-to-rural geography make it increasingly competitive for productions that can work within the credit's structural constraints.
The questions producers ask first when sizing a Missouri shoot, answered against the state's current program structure and fringe environment.
Headline rate is the start, not the end. Compare Missouri side-by-side with every other U.S. jurisdiction on caps, minimum spend, refundability, and fringe before locking the location.
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