UK production community “very concerned” about proposed US federal tax incentive

The UK production community is “very concerned” about what impact the proposed US federal tax incentive will mean for the UK industry, as stressed during a Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) Committee hearing in UK parliament yesterday (November 11).

Glasgow-based Claire Mundell, managing director of Synchronicity Films, was speaking in front of the cross-party committee alongside BFI deputy CEO Harriet Finney and British Screen Forum chief executive Pete Johnson, as a follow-up to the committee’s inquiry into British film and high-end TV, which ran from 2023-25.

“In the production community we are very concerned about the proposed US incentives that are on the horizon and what they will do to inward investment in the UK,” said Mundell, stressing the income producers receive from working on a service basis for these projects to help fund their own companies, as well as the skills and training opportunities they provide. Synchronicity’s credits include Sky series The Tattooist Of Auschwitz.

These concerns have been intensified by a slowdown in inward investment in the UK, as revealed in stats published on November 10 by the BFI highlighting inward investment spend on film in the UK was down 40% in the first nine months of 2026…