TIGA: We WILL get video games tax relief

TIGA, the trade body that represents the UK games industry, has hailed plans unveiled in today's budget to enhance R&D tax credits as a "decisive victory" for its members. According to a spokesman for the association,...

The UK games industry hasn't given up on getting its cancelled tax relief plan reinstated, with trade association TIGA announcing intensified campaigning ahead of the March Budget.Following a report in The Sunday Times that...

Following George Osborne's balls up with games tax relief, Canada has now nudged the UK's games development industry into fourth place. Canada now sits at number three, behind the US and Japan in first and second place...

After ditching the previous Labour administration's pledge to offer tax relief to the UK gaming industry in his Emergency Budget, Tory Chancellor George Osborne may be planning a U-turn. Scottish National Party MSP for Dundee,...

Tory Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has stated the UK games industry isn't going to collapse as a result of the cancellation of tax relief, saying suggestions to the contrary are "just so wide of the mark." Vaizey made the statement...

While the big UK gaming heavyweights such as TIGA and ELSPA are condemning George Osborne's decision to cancel video games tax relief, indie games developers in the UK appear to be indifferent to it. British game dev Cliff...

UK games developers have just been dealt a financial blow by Chancellor George Osborne in his first budget, which sees the coalition Government scrapping the video games tax relief plans promised by Labour. In his speech today,...