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Broadcasters and governing bodies make tax plea for TV coverage of women’s sport
Culture & SocietyThe Guardian04 Sept, 02:01 pmAtlasHour
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Broadcasters and governing bodies make tax plea for TV coverage of women’s sport

Letter sent to chancellor, John Healey, on Friday ‘Audience demand for women’s sport is growing’ The chief executives of the Football Association, Rugby Football Union and England and Wales Cricket Board have joined forces with leading broadcasters and YouTube in writing to the chancellor requesting tax credits for production companies to help deliver more television coverage of women’s sport. In a letter signed by 25 representatives of the country’s biggest sports and broadcasters, including Sky Sports and ITV, the government is urged to extend to women’s sport production the audio-visual expenditure credit scheme that provides tax relief to independent films and children’s television...

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Letter sent to chancellor, John Healey, on Friday ‘Audience demand for women’s sport is growing’ The chief executives of the Football Association, Rugby Football Union and England and Wales Cricket Board have joined forces with leading broadcasters and YouTube in writing to the chancellor requesting tax credits for production companies to help deliver more television coverage of women’s sport.

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