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Govt report claims Scottish games industry 'makes no money'

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/36 ... eneral-RSS

Quickly, label it a health risk and tax sensible people with it!

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Fri Sep 07, 2012 6:44 pm

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Re: Govt report claims Scottish games industry 'makes no money'

I still don't see why game development should attract tax relief.

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Fri Sep 07, 2012 10:13 pm

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Re: Govt report claims Scottish games industry 'makes no money'

+1
It's no more or less worthy than that compared to any other business.

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Fri Sep 07, 2012 10:34 pm

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	Linux_User wrote: I still don't see why game development should attract tax relief.

I suppose there's the argument that's it's a relatively fledgling industry that we're quite talented at despite ourselves. Also, allegedly, everybody's buggering off to Canada and the like for the tax breaks. A brain drain for us in a billion dollar industry etc

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