Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-70.145.137.87-20140701091430/@comment-4091815-20140713011654

The credit will pay for 25% of "qualified costs."

That's $46.3 million in qualified costs.

24 episodes would cost roughly $48 million to produce.

Assuming all costs are not "qualified" and each episode's budget is slightly different - this suggests the credit covers 24 episodes.

It remains to be seen if those episodes would run in two half seasons (as did Season 3) or if MTV will air them as separate seasons.

However, all episodes would need to be filmed as a single season during the time of the tax credit - meaning from the end of 2014 through the end of 2015.