4/24/2013
'Tonight Show's' NYC Move To Save NBC $20 Million in Tax Credits

When Jimmy Fallon takes the host's chair at The Tonight Show in February, his first shout-out should be to the state of New York. A THR analysis reveals that NBC could receive more than $20 million in annual tax breaks and possibly more for shooting Fallon's Tonight at 30 Rockefeller Center.

New York's state incentives program was amended this year to provide a 30 percent annual tax credit for talk programs filmed before a studio audience of at least 200, as long as they carry a production budget of at least $30 million and have been shot outside New York for at least five seasons.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...how-nyc-444773



‘The Tonight Show’ just got big NY tax breaks

ALBANY - Here’s your tax money…
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon raked in nearly $21 million from New York taxpayers for its first season in New York, new records show.
The state lured the late show from California in 2013 as Fallon, who grew up in Saugerties, Ulster County, was getting set to take over for Jay Leno. The state expanded its film-tax credit program to include relocated TV shows — which critics said was specifically aimed at getting The Tonight Show back to New York.
So now the bill has come due: The state reimbursed the first season of the show in 2014 for 30 percent of its qualified production costs, which were nearly $70 million.

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/...aks/103771032/