Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has updated the industry on figures surrounding the long-awaited tax breaks. Finally introduced last year, the video games tax relief enables studios to recoup some of the costs of development through help from the government. Speaking at Develop: Brighton this morning, Vaizey revealed a few statistics …
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The BFI has released figures for the first full year of UK games tax relief, reporting a UK spend of 14m towards the production of approved titles. That’s just shy of the 15m that was budgeted for tax breaks between April 2014 and March 2015. Tax breaks for UK games …
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