Georgia offers tax breaks to game industry

by Alexander Sliwinski { May 14th 2008 at 1:00AM }

Apparently game developers can hitch a ride with the devil if they're looking for some tax breaks. According to the Duluth Weekly, Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue signed into law the 2008 Entertainment Industry Investment Act, which gives financial incentives to film, TV and game development. Bill Thompson, deputy commissioner of the Film, Music and Digital Entertainment Office, points out the law makes Georgia one of the few states with incentives for the video game industry.

The signing took place at the studios of Turner Broadcasting, which not only runs several television stations, but also GameTap. The new incentives offer a 20% tax credit, with an additional 10% if it includes an animated Georgia promotional logo in the finished product. So, go on down to Georgia, developers. If you can survive the summers, they're giving away free money.

[Via GamePolitics]

Tags: georgia, perdue, sonny-perdue, tax-breaks, taxbreaks

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

SkreeHunter @ May 14th 2008 1:21AM

Yay! My state (I'm not from there by the way.) finally did something good!

bigsofty @ May 14th 2008 2:15AM

Yay! Thats really playing on an even playing field... not!

SkreeHunter @ May 14th 2008 2:47AM

I actually should have said I'm not from Georgia ORIGIONALLY.

zsb2003 @ May 14th 2008 1:29AM

Take that Alabama!

Imaginationac @ May 14th 2008 1:57AM

Sweet! I'd like to take advantage of this, as soon as I can make a decent game.

xeleion @ May 14th 2008 1:59AM

-raised in GA-

Good ol' Sonny Perdue. He's a good feller. Really, real good feller indeed.

Kujel @ May 14th 2008 2:04AM

In time they will all fallow the path of Ludus :D

Maximilian Lockwood @ May 14th 2008 2:42AM

"Apparently game developers can hitch a ride with the devil if they're looking for some tax breaks."

...I see what you did there.

ThornedVenom (Harley Quinn Defense Force) @ May 14th 2008 2:54AM

I would have laughed so hard if this happened in Florida.

Consolcwby @ May 14th 2008 4:09AM

I wonder if Bill is related to Jack... perhaps an 'evil' twin brother??...

Chase @ May 14th 2008 5:32AM

What Alexander fails to realize is how this refers to Georgia the country not Georgia the U.S. state.

What a nationcentric elitist. I bet he wears socks with his sandals, too.

BrennaCeDria @ May 14th 2008 7:35AM

*lives in Savannah*

Yea, so not worth being in Georgia. Any company that would take advantage of this would probably base in Atlanta, where you've got the heat AND about a thousand times more people than I've already got to deal with.

Sorry, but no matter what companies take advantage of this, I'm leaving the state for cooler climates once I finally get my degree. I don't even care WHICH cooler climates, so long as I can come home and not have to take a second shower each day.

Britton @ May 14th 2008 9:12AM

Ew, Savannah. I live in Atlanta where I can take shade under skyscrapers! Haha, but seriously, where do you go to school? Not SCAD, I assume, because that's entirely misnamed for its actual location...

BrennaCeDria @ May 14th 2008 9:32AM

I go to South University for Information Technology. And, well, SCAD is named fairly well when you consider they probably own over half the buildings downtown...

Brett from Atlanta @ May 14th 2008 1:37PM

I dunno, I'm from Atlanta and go to school in Statesboro right by Savannah, and it is way hotter down here than it is in Atlanta.

BrennaCeDria @ May 14th 2008 3:29PM

At least here in Savannah, we get the ocean breezes in as far as Pooler normally. You probably don't get that in Statesboro. I would imagine Atlanta to be even hotter than either Savannah or Statesboro though, what with being more developed and trapping the heat and all.