ELSPA and TIGA team up to get tax breaks

With the emergence of the smartphone as the most popular gaming platform at present, video game developers in UK are turning to self-publication. In a recent survey, 47 percent game developers in UK self-publish games; 67 percent...

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...

  Now the coalition government has abandoned the original proposals for video game tax relief, both Sony and Activision Blizzard have warned that they're reconsidering further investment in the UK. Speaking to The...

UK game developers were given a swift slap by the coalition government last week, when Chancellor George Osborne axed plans for video games tax relief. However, the games industry is confident it can still get the proposals...

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,...

The UK's video game industry will be popping corks after the Government announced a programme of tax relief to help future game development. Dr Richard Wilson, CEO of Tiga - the industry's trade association which has been...

In a bid to plug the skills deficiency in the UK gaming business, the UK games industry’s trade association, TIGA, has publicly called on the government to increase funding on higher education and abolish the cap on tuition...

Gaming champion and Labour MP Tom Watson has called on the government to offer tax relief to the UK games industry in an Early Day Motion. Watson said on his Gamers' Voice Facebook group that he's managed to get MPs from all...

The House of Lords has recommended that the UK's video games industry should get tax breaks in order to compete fairly on the international stage. A report published today by the House of Lord's Communications Committee, which...

The gaming industry has urged the UK government to support UK video games developers as it feels that they are threatened by their international rivals who get full backing of their respective governments. Some of the most...