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Government of Ontario, Ontario Creates
Tax credit for book publishing in Ontario
Helps Ontario book publishers pay for pre-press, printing, and marketing costs. Offers a refundable tax credit of 30% up to $30,000 per book title.
A refundable tax credit calculated as 30% of eligible Ontario pre-press, printing, and marketing expenditures incurred for eligible book publishing activities, up to $30,000 per book title.
Industries: book publishing
Region: Ontario, Canada
Other Criteria: Canadian-controlled corporation (as determined under sections 26 to 28 of the Investment Canada Act), Carries on a book publishing business primarily through a permanent establishment in Ontario, Files an Ontario corporate tax return, Allocates more than 50% of its taxable income to Ontario in the taxation year the credit is being claimed, Has published at least two books in the previous year (exception for transferred, amalgamated, or wound up businesses), Literary work is written by an eligible Canadian author (or 90% by eligible Canadian authors), 90% or more of the literary work is new material that has not been previously published, Literary work belongs to an eligible category of writing (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, biography, children’s fiction/non-fiction/poetry/biography), For works with pictures, text to picture ratio is at least 65% (except children’s books), Literary work is at least 48 printed pages in length (except children’s books) and suitable for publication as a bound paperback or hardback (bound edition only required for books published prior to 2020), Literary work is not a prescribed ineligible publication, Eligible Canadian author is ordinarily resident in Canada and is either a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident when contract is entered into
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