Digital Interactive Media and Software (DIMS) Tax Credit
Provides Louisiana digital media and software producers with payroll and production tax credits for qualifying activity.
Louisiana's Digital Interactive Media and Software (DIMS) Tax Credit, administered by Louisiana Economic Development (LED), offers two simultaneous tax credits to producers of digital interactive media and software operating in Louisiana: a 25% credit on qualified in-state payroll and an 18% credit on qualified production expenditures. There is no minimum spend and no cap on either credit.
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Louisiana tax credits of 25% on qualified in-state payroll and 18% on production expenditures for producers of digital interactive media and software.
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