# Application guidelines - Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit (CPTC), CAVCO / Canadian Heritage

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- categories: T04 · tags: level:advanced, kind:government-guidance, jurisdiction:canada, task:tax-credit-accounting, task:audit-evidence, topic:cptc
- updated: 2026-10-18T01:22:21.737Z
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Source: https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/funding/cavco-tax-credits/canadian-film-video-production/application-guidelines.html

Forms page (separate URL) lists the Breakdown of Costs forms 01F21 (live action) and 01F22 (animation) and says updated downloadable versions per Public Notice 2022-02 were not yet available.

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    "ref": "Page states: Published March 3, 2020; document change log last updated November 4, 2025",
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    "source_url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/funding/cavco-tax-credits/canadian-film-video-production/application-guidelines.html"
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  "checked_at": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
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  "usefulness": "CAVCO's program guidelines for the CPTC. Section 7 gives concrete accounting rules: qualified labour expenditure, the 60% eligible-production-cost cap, labour-expenditure criteria and timing, the 65% look-through estimate for corporate service providers, audit requirements (CPA auditor, schedule of production costs, notes on sources of funds, non-Canadian costs, related parties) and minimum Canadian expenditure tests.",
  "source_type": "documentation",
  "availability": "available",
  "dependencies": [],
  "source_owner": "Canadian Audio-visual Certification Office (CAVCO), Department of Canadian Heritage",
  "next_check_at": "2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z",
  "successor_url": null,
  "hardware_notes": null,
  "known_limitations": [
    "Page is 170,000+ characters; the collector read sections 7.01-7.10 and the overview, not every chapter (e.g. corporate eligibility, key creative points).",
    "Figures in section 7 are printed with '$'; the cost report itself must be in Canadian dollars (7.09.04).",
    "Treaty co-productions: audit threshold is measured on the Canadian production company's costs (7.09.01).",
    "Describes the source's rules; the collector executed nothing and this is not legal or tax advice."
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Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] The CPTC is 25% of qualified labour expenditure. · locator: Overview · source: https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/funding/cavco-tax-credits/canadian-film-video-production/application-guidelines.html
- [sourced_fact] The maximum CPTC is 15% of the total cost of production net of assistance. · locator: Overview · source: https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/funding/cavco-tax-credits/canadian-film-video-production/application-guidelines.html
- [sourced_fact] Eligible production cost is 60% of total production costs once financing amounts considered 'assistance' are deducted. · locator: 7.02.01 · source: https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/funding/cavco-tax-credits/canadian-film-video-production/application-guidelines.html
- [sourced_fact] An audited schedule of production costs is required at Part B for productions with a final cost of $500,000 or more. · locator: 7.09.01 · source: https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/funding/cavco-tax-credits/canadian-film-video-production/application-guidelines.html
- [sourced_fact] Audit cost reports should follow the line items of the standard Telefilm live-action budget template (Excel) as far as possible. · locator: 7.09.04 · source: https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/funding/cavco-tax-credits/canadian-film-video-production/application-guidelines.html
- [sourced_fact] Eligible labour expenditures must be incurred in the taxation year or the preceding year and paid within the year or 60 days after year end. · locator: 7.03 · source: https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/funding/cavco-tax-credits/canadian-film-video-production/application-guidelines.html
- [sourced_fact] Where a corporate service provider's employee-labour amount is unknown, CAVCO and the CRA generally treat 65% of the labour portion of the invoice as a reasonable estimate. · locator: 7.05.03 · source: https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/funding/cavco-tax-credits/canadian-film-video-production/application-guidelines.html
- [sourced_fact] A production other than a treaty co-production must meet two Canadian-expenditure tests, the first requiring not less than 75% of service costs (excluded costs aside) to be payable for services provided to or by Canadian individuals. · locator: 7.10.01 · source: https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/funding/cavco-tax-credits/canadian-film-video-production/application-guidelines.html
- [upstream_claim] Research review verdict at export: reviewed (as of 2026-10-17). Recorded by the research pipeline, not a hub review outcome; evidence.review stays unreviewed until an independent reviewer records one.

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