http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/general/screen-nova-scotia en http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/content/mcneil-caught-fibbing-film-tax-credit <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(79, 79, 79); font-family: proxima-nova, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><img alt="" src="/sites/shelburne.asrequired.ca/files/mcneil-nose-cartton-color.jpg" style="width: 444px; height: 512px;" /><br /> Screen Nova Scotia and the NDP are both accusing Premier Stephen McNeil of misleading the public about changes to the province’s Film Tax Credit after he told News 95.7 this week the sector experienced no growth under the old regime of tax breaks.</span></p> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(79, 79, 79); font-family: proxima-nova, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">“Under the old model, the government was continuing to put more and more money into an industry that wasn’t experiencing any growth,” McNeil said on Thursday.</span></p> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(79, 79, 79); font-family: proxima-nova, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size:14px;">On Friday, the NDP released a document from a Public Accounts Committee presentation in 2014, when a review was underway of Nova Scotia’s tax system by former Ontario cabinet minister Laurel Broten.</span></p> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 16px; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(79, 79, 79); font-family: proxima-nova, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">SEE FULL STORY FROM NEWS 95.7</span><br /><a href="https://www.news957.com/2016/01/15/ndp-screen-ns-both-accuse-premier-of-misleading-public-on-tax-credit-changes/" style="font-size: 14px;">https://www.news957.com/2016/01/15/ndp-screen-ns-both-accuse-premier-of-misleading-public-on-tax-credit-changes/</a></p> </div></div></div><div class="service-links"><a href="https://twitter.com/share?url=http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/content/mcneil-caught-fibbing-film-tax-credit&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=&amp;text=McNeil caught fibbing on film tax credit?&amp;counturl=http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/content/mcneil-caught-fibbing-film-tax-credit" class="twitter-share-button service-links-twitter-widget" title="Tweet This" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="element-invisible">Tweet Widget</span></a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/content/mcneil-caught-fibbing-film-tax-credit&amp;layout=button_count&amp;show_faces=false&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;width=100&amp;height=21&amp;font=&amp;locale=" title="I Like it" class="service-links-facebook-like" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="element-invisible">Facebook Like</span></a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php" title="Share this post on Facebook" class="service-links-facebook-widget" rel="http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/content/mcneil-caught-fibbing-film-tax-credit" target="_blank">Share on Facebook</a></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/general/stephen-mcneil" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">stephen mcneil</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/general/ndp" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">ndp</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/general/screen-nova-scotia" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">screen nova scotia</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/general/film-tax-credit" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">film tax credit</a></div></div></div> Mon, 18 Jan 2016 12:24:14 +0000 Timothy Gillespie 4311 at http://www.southcoasttoday.ca http://www.southcoasttoday.ca/content/mcneil-caught-fibbing-film-tax-credit#comments