Florida legislature passes bill for better digital tax breaks
by Griffin McElroy 
on Apr 8th 2010 6:30PM
Though the peninsular state of Florida plays host to a handful of video game companies, including EA Tiburon and Alienware, it's not really a hotbed of ludological movers and shakers. The state's governing bodies are looking to change that with
a recently passed bill which will increase tax cuts on film, television and digital media (see: video game) production from 15 percent to 20 percent.
Our favorite part about the bill, however, is that it awards an additional 5 percent break to film studios who produce movies during hurricane season. We wish this rule applied to game developers as well. "Okay, guys, we know we set a launch date of Spring 2011, but it's officially crunch time, because our studio doesn't have a roof anymore."
