Producers of Austen adaptation wooed by Irish tax break

Love and Friendship, a film adaptation of Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, will be closing finance this week.

The film is being co-produced by Irish company, Blinder Films, and it is being shot in Ireland. It is one of the first film and television productions to benefit from the enhanced Section 481 tax incentive.

As of January 1, 2015, a new payable tax credit programme was introduced with an increased rate of relief of ...