Report: UK government rejects gaming tax break proposal

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Fail Country!

Now you're a Planeteer? Dammit I want to be one too.

There'd be no money left over for MP expenses if they gave another tax break.

+10 points for the Greek mythology reference.

UK developers have created some massive gaming franchises - Grand Theft Auto, Tomb Raider, Timesplitters, Burnout, Project Gotham Racing to name a few - and generate a lot of income for the country. It's stupid that the government doesn't want to nurture that more.

Whilst at the Guardian read Charlie Brooker and Marina Hyde and subscribe to Football Weekly.

I waste so much time there :wubs:

News like this makes me glad I live in Canada (not bashing the UK here), now if BC would get some of those sweet tax credits Ontario and Quebec get that would be awesome, maybe Vancouver would become the Montreal of the west coast.

Kid on the bottom right just let one rip.

...yeaaaaaaaaaaah I'm the Tax-maaaaaaaan, Don't ask me what I want it for, (ah-ah, mister Wilson)

Don't give them tax breaks and even the gaming industry will move to China. Face it, China has some game development talent that would put even the brightest of Japan, UK and the USA to shame. EA has already opened a giant studio in Shanghai and I can almost promise others will follow. Especially when the governments refuse to appreciate the contributions they make to economic development.

It's a shame: the UK already has a few studios which have proven that the country does have a quality talent pool, but if their government isn't willing to support it then it'll be sapped by other foreign studios.

The government here aren't going to be giving anyone tax breaks for a loooong looooooong time. We're fucked finacially. Taxes are going to go up round the board, frontline public services are getting scrapped. Crappy country is crap shocker.

Unfortunate I think.

Probably once jobs are lost and developers go to countries that give them a better deal they wil relise they fucked up and sppend more money trying to get new developers in

Well, I believe that Tiga could have chosen a better time to put forward their proposal. The week that Alistair Darling announces in his Pre-Budget speech of a rise in National Insurance and a pay freeze is not the time to go out with the begging bowl. Although this news is very regrettable, and could definitely harm our games industry, EVERYBODY is suffering in this recession. I'm only a student and this recession has cut my part time job at a Library's hours by 40% as well as the pre-budget of today freezing my pay rise to 1% over the next two years. I'm sure if Tiga had placed significant pressure on the Government over the "Boom" years, they wouldn't be in this position today. We can but hope that these developers can hold on financially throughout the remainder of the recession, and our subsequent recovery, for the tax breaks they richly deserve.