Hollywood Entertainment Labor Council Backs Runaway Bill.Business/Entertainment Editors HOLLYWOOD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 14, 2001 The Hollywood Entertainment Labor Council (HELC HELC High Efficiency Liquid Chromatography HELC Hope Evangelical Lutheran Church (San Mateo, CA) ) has voted to endorse a recently introduced US Senate wage-based tax credit bill to curb runaway production  An editor has expressed concern that this article or section is .Please help improve the article by adding information and sources on neglected viewpoints, or by summarizing and . HELC (formerly known as the Hollywood Film and Broadcast Council) is composed of the industry's most influential guilds and unions, including the Directors Guild, IATSE IATSE International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, Its Territories and Canada IATSE International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Machine Operators and Screen Actors Guild. HELC has added its voice to the growing chorus of organizations urging Congress to level the playing field. "HELC's 170,000 plus members believe it's past time for our government to act. Members are losing their homes," said Scott Roth, acting president of HELC. "Other countries are providing substantial incentives. This bill is the first step toward making the United States competitive," Roth emphasized. The legislation, the Independent Film and Television Incentive Act, has already attracted strong bipartisan support since being introduced two weeks ago by Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AK). If passed, the bill would provide a wage-based tax credit for low-budget features, telefilms and movies-of-the-week that are shot within the United States, whose labor costs are between $200,000 and $10 million. With its endorsement, HELC joins a powerful cross-section of organizations and small businesses supporting the bill. These include, among others, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS ATAS Academy of Television Arts & Sciences ATAS Aboriginal Tutorial Assistance Scheme ATAS Air-to-Air Stinger ATAS Advanced Tank Armament System ATAS Active Towed Array Sonar ATAS Australian Tsunami Alert System ATAS Association of Turkish American Scientists ), Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP AICP American Institute of Certified Planners AICP Association of Independent Commercial Producers AICP Association of Islamic Charitable Projects (Philadelphia, PA) AICP Association of Insurance Compliance Professionals ), Creative Coalition, Entertainment Industry Development Corp. (EIDC), Film U.S., Production Equipment Rental Association (PERA PERA Public Employees Retirement Association PERA Production Equipment Rental Association PERA Public Employment Relations Act (various states) PERA Production Engine Remanufacturers Association PERA Presidential Election Reform Act ) and Recording Musicians Association. |
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