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Eligible Production Types

Animation

Commercials

Documentaries

Feature Films

Game Shows

Pilots

Post Only

Reality Television

Scripted Television

Talk Shows

Video Games

Location Production Needs

Beaches Ocean

City

Deserts

Forests

Lakes Rivers

Mountains

Rural

Snow

Suburban

Tropical

Incentive25%-30% Rebate
Labor
Resident ATL25%
Resident BTL25%
Qualified Spend
Spend25%

Qualified spend consists of the costs of goods and services purchased in Croatia and wages paid to Croatian tax residents (both cast and crew) for services carried out in Croatia.

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Spend Uplifts

5% for productions filming in regions with below average development.

Minimum/Caps
Minimum SpendHRK 2M (features); HRK 300K (documentaries); HRK 500K (animation films); HRK 1M (TV Films); HRK 750K (TV Episodes)
Application

A hardcopy of the application, along with a copy of the documents in electronic format, must be submitted to the HAVC no later than 8 days prior to the start of production in Croatia.

Additional Requirements
Screen CreditNo
CPA AuditYes
Cultural TestYes
Local Production CompanyYes
Sunset DateNone
Additional Information

Productions benefiting from more than HRK 5M, have to employ at least one Croatian trainee in each of the main production departments.

Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC)

+385 1 6041 082

filmingincroatia@havc.hr

filmingincroatia.hr/

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