{"id":7104,"date":"2008-02-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"noci-pictures-offers-100-deductions-for-alternative-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2008\/noci-pictures-offers-100-deductions-for-alternative-investors.html","title":{"rendered":"Noci Pictures Offers 100% Deductions For Alternative Investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- Noci Pictures Entertainment, A Chicago film finance and production company is offering an innovative way for high net worth investors, hedge funds and private equity groups to receive 100% deductions for film investments as well as state income tax credits.<\/p>\n<p>Yuri Rutman&rsquo;s Noci Pictures Entertainment is shooting a slate of films in Illinois using a hybrid of tax, finance, risk minimization and exit strategies that offer dollar for dollar Federal Tax Deductions and state income tax credits.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I don&rsquo;t know of any other alternative investment that can offer tax incentives, multiple exit strategies, as well as giving back to the local economy, while being <br \/>involved with the moviemaking process, Rutman states, &quot;that would add to the long <br \/>line of recent films either shot in Illinois or about to shoot including &ldquo;The Dark Knight&rdquo;, the upcoming John Dillinger film with Johnny Depp and Christian Bale, as well as a lot of other Hollywood films.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>The American Jobs Creation Act Of 2004, the 2004 enactment of Section 181 of the <br \/>Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the &quot;Code&quot;) marked an unprecedented change in U.S. policy toward the phenomenon known as &quot;Runaway Production&quot;. <\/p>\n<p>Runaway Production refers to a film or television production that leaves one state or country to be filmed in another purely for economic reasons. This movement occurs <br \/>because producers tend to film in the location where they can minimize production costs through tax incentives, cheaper labor. <\/p>\n<p>An individual or company who makes an investment into Section 181 qualified productions can take a 100% deduction of their investment against their passive <br \/>income in the year their investment was made. <\/p>\n<p>But since Section 181 also allows for all other recourse debt costs which are usually associated with film finance, a $10 million dollar film, where only $3.5 million is equity, an investor can deduct $3.5 million dollars against the $10 million, especially if the latter is mezzanine or gap finance. Plus, an additional 20% in Illinois tax credits can be generated. <\/p>\n<p>Regarding Section 181 as an alternative investment for hedge funds that want to offset their tax liabilities, Rutman adds &quot;That I am redefining film finance that is more serving to the community, local economies, and people who need jobs. Plus, I have so many risk minimization strategies in place and several exit scenarios, there are a lot of hedge and private equity funds who are now starting to feel a bit shafted with their film fund deals simple because they did not do their homework.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>Editor for HedgeCo.Net<br \/>Email: alex@hedgeco.net<\/p>\n<p>HedgeCo.Net is a premier hedge fund database and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership on www.hedgeco.net is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for Hedge Funds!<br \/>Be sure to check out our sister sites. www.hedgefundlounge.com, www.hedgefundtools.com, and www.hedgefundemployment.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net)- Noci Pictures Entertainment, A Chicago film finance and production company is offering an innovative way for high net worth investors, hedge funds and private equity groups to receive 100% deductions for film investments as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}