The video game development industry enjoys tax breaks in quite a few countries across the world, including Australia, Canada, China, France, South Korea, Singapore and the US, while the UK only offers a small benefit for limited research and development tasks.
Consequently, many companies have been relocating their game design businesses out of the UK, and encouraging the country's talent pool to go with them. This is something trade association Tiga has been petitioning the government about for quite some time, in an effort to stop the decline of the UK games industry before it disappears altogether.
Tiga CEO Richard Wilson is now offering his organisations help to secretary of state for culture, media and sport, Ben Bradshaw, in making a case for tax breaks that will help the UK games industry compete on a level playing field.
"Tiga stands ready to meet with the secretary of state and his senior officials to provide him with any further information that his department needs to make the case for enacting further tax breaks for the video games industry within government," Wilson explains.
In his open letter to Lord Mandelson dated March 11th 2009, Wilson warned that the UK game development industry fell from third largest in the world based on revenue in 2006 to fourth position in 2007 and is expected to fall to fifth place in 2009.
Perhaps the offer of a complimentary duck pond/boating lake for the second and third homes of all MPs in favour of supporting the UK games industry would help bolster support?
Top Stories
News
1 hour, 21 minutes ago
Week in Views - Apple back themselves bigstyle, Clash bags Haaland and dreams come true at King
News
4 hours, 12 minutes ago
Mobile Movers: All the latest appointments and job moves from around the industry
News
4 hours, 57 minutes ago
Squad Busters has 20 million pre registrations with 30 million in its sights
News
5 hours, 19 minutes ago
Carry1st's African Cup to feature Call of Duty: Mobile tournament with $15,000 prize pool
News
1 hour, 21 minutes ago
Week in Views - Apple back themselves bigstyle, Clash bags Haaland and dreams come true at King
Feature
3 hours, 33 minutes ago
Apple and Nintendo's Delta blues: A legal timebomb or just the new normal?
News
4 hours, 12 minutes ago
Mobile Movers: All the latest appointments and job moves from around the industry
Feature
8 hours, 34 minutes ago
Mobile Mavens: The industry wades in on Squad Busters from its “transformative impact” to being “corporate box ticking”
Feature
10 hours, 17 minutes ago
New release roundup: The best new mobile games from the morality of AI to Dadish’s 3D journey
Events
GameDev Atlantic 2024 | May 4th | |
LA Games Conference 2024 | North America | May 6th |
Mobidictum Meetup Berlin May 2024 | Europe | May 7th |
Valencia Indie Summit 2024 | Europe | May 16th |
Mobidictum Meetup Tallinn May 2024 | Europe | May 21st |
Israel Mobile Summit 2024 | Middle East | Jun 6th |
WN Conference Istanbul 2024 | Jun 11th | |
DevGAMM Vilnius 2024 | Europe | Jun 14th |