Isla MacGillivray

Isla will be leading a talk on Demystifying the Tax Credit on Thursday 22nd. She is also participating in our dedicated Business@MOVE 1:1 meeting sessions.


Isla is a Partner in the Film and Television Team at Saffery and has worked within the creative industry sector for over 10 years.

Isla provides a range of services in relation to the UK Creative Industry tax reliefs, including; advising producers on how to access UK creative industry tax incentives; advising on British cultural test qualification and attaining co-production status for films, TV programmes and video games; advising on multi-territorial production structures and financing arrangements; evaluating budgeted production expenditure for qualification of tax relief, providing opinion letters for financiers and assisting clients with statutory audits, accounts and tax compliance.

Her client base includes film, television and video game production & distribution companies, commissioning producers and rights owners across a range of large US and UK studios to small budget independent producers as well as other corporate entities which operate in the film, TV and video games industries.

Saffery LLP is a UK audit, accounting and tax practice that operates throughout the UK and Ireland