The tax entertainment system in Karnataka is a bit different from other adjoining States like Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. To patronize movies, the government had exempted Kannada movies totally from any kind of entertainment tax.
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So, where is the huge entertainment tax coming from? It’s from non-Kannada movies. This year, non-Kannada movies like ‘Baahubali‘ and ‘Kabali’ earned an entertainment tax of Rs. 9 crores each from Bengaluru theaters alone. When the amount was summed up, the Karnataka government earned a total of Rs. 109 crores.
It’s not only Telugu movies, even Hindi and English movies are earning big bucks for Karnataka government as the non-Kannada speaking audiences (migrants’ population) crowd is comparatively higher in Bengaluru. Besides ‘Baahubali’ and ‘Kabali’, Hindi film ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ and English film ‘Fast and Furious’ earned big for the government.
