Archive for the 'tax breaks' Category

Tax Break Barrier Broken

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

After years of campaigning about it from the industry, the UK Government has finally announced tax breaks for the games industry. Congratulations to TIGA, ELSPA and all the developers that worked with them on making the case for them.
There are very few details as yet, but Develop have been carving a few out including that [...]

“Please Don’t Go”

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Less than a month ago since people were voicing doubts about games companies staying in Prince Edward Island. Now we see what’s quite possibly the beginning of a new round of funding and tax breaks, with Ontario announcing a new fund for technology companies in the province.
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UK Govt. On Games Tax Breaks: Justify Them To Us

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Industry chuntering on tax breaks is seeming slightly less idealistic this week, with the past few including a mention in the Digital Britain report. Late last week, minister for culture Sion Simon wrote to the heads of ELSPA and TIGA asking them to justify tax breaks for the industry, reports, er, the Mirror. You can [...]