VAT sinks assistance and collection of Spanish culture … – The Confidential

First full year with the VAT culture and the results can not be worse. Fewer culture and this year is consumed all art forms have been like attendance and revenues are down . Neither the music or the performing arts, and film have been a crisis that makes the industry since 2008 is on the verge of death and the tax established in September 2012 has finished.

That is the conclusion drawn from the Yearbook of the General Society of Authors and Editors (SGAE). In the report, the president of the organization, Antonio Onetti , aware of how “factors such as economic crisis, piracy, the rise of cultural VAT and changes in consumer habits” are stifling culture.

A directory that has seen a few days before his presentation two new setbacks to the sector is facing. The first question about the treatment of compensatory payment for private copy raised by the Supreme Court regarding the Copyright Act. Second, the reverse creating a Patronage Law ultimately to be buried in the tax reform.

The yearbook shows how SGAE performing arts, film and music were decreases in attendance and collection This report points to the film as the sector has been worst part in 2013 Last year was the worst in the last quarter century and only one course was lost 17.8% of viewers and 18.5% of the collection .

All indicators measuring the health of the film industry are negative. Falls the number of screens, number of cinemas and share our movies , as two co Fast & amp stays by 13.9%, thanks to the trick of including; Furious 6 and Mom .

Things are much worse if one looks at the year 2008 In the years of the crisis attending the meeting has dropped by 28.9% and 20.1% collection.

In 2013 the Performing Arts , with the theater to the head (representing a 93.13% of the total) have also seen their numbers were worse. 8 million euros were collected less (from 208 million to 200), which is 3.5% less, which has been linked a loss of 4.1% of viewers.

the trend is confirmed down from previous years and accumulated since 2008 shows a 34% fall in the number of viewers , leaving the figure at less than 13 million. The large percentage representing the theater for the performing arts makes your figures are very similar

Music. Neither live nor recorded

Nor music he is saved from the burning of last year. Both live performances and the recorded ( physical and digital format ) fell during 2013.

Classical music lost 4.1% and 2.2 viewers % of revenue in the last year. Since 2007, these figures increase to 18.7 and 17.4%. The popular music does not have a much more optimistic picture, since it also decreases their assistance, 12.5% ​​less than in 2012 (despite the macrofestivals).

Sales in the physical market fell by 22.8% in 2013 and 70.4% since 2008 A bump that is not outweighed by the numbers of digital market, which fell by 0.4% in 2012-2013 The sale of music continues in free fall and is one of the sectors most affected . Their losses are greater than those presented by the world market, showing a decrease of 15.1% in a year. Sales in the physical market, which continues to dominate the sector, fell by 22.8% in 2013, and 70.4% since 2008. A bump that is not offset by market figures digital, which fell by 0.4% in 2012-2013, reflecting a shutdown of the increase was living the last years.

The data directory of the SGAE reveal a “ precarious industry and its professionals “in a year since the institution qualifies as” lost “for the reconstruction of the cultural sector, whose survival is considered an achievement in itself.