Tiga: Georgia incentives highlight UK game devs need tax breaks

by Alexander Sliwinski on May 19th 2008 10:25AM

Tiga, a trade association for game developers in the UK and Europe, made a statement today that tax incentives in other territories are hurting UK games development. The group highlights the recent tax breaks announced by the US state of Georgia as something the government in its own country should be doing.

Richard Wilson, CEO of Tiga, says the Georgia tax breaks show how other state and national governments are competing to make the most "hospitable environment for games production." He believes the UK needs to create tax credits and increase the supply of qualified graduates to grow the industry. He points out the UK can't afford to ignore "heavily subsidized competition" from competing nations. Australia's GDAA has also been pushing its government to give the games industry the 40% tax break it offers the film industry.

[Via GI.biz]

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Reader Comments (5)

As the song goes... "Give the po' man a break", UK. :\

Awesome. Any developers looking for a tax break can come crash at my place in Atlanta! I believe my living quarters is large enough to make an award winning game in...

Our government is such a bunch of cheapskates. It also doesn't help that instead of reducing costs through efficiency they just keep making more and more taxes but give the working people less and less and the 15 year old mums free houses and loads of money. Although I suppose they are breeding the next generation of Haloz players

Keep dreaming UK developers, with the UK and Australian governments attitudes toward gaming in general it will be a long time before the support the medium.