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Re: UK tax payers to cover 25% tax break
@Andreas im going to ignore your last comment because you know that is below the belt and un called for. @Kwramm we have huge r&d departments that have a direct pipeline into the universities to pull out phd's to write new renderers muscle systems physic etc, etc. trust me we have all that to. most of our tech is kicked… -
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I think you underestimate the difficulties. Making games is more than making art. Art and to a degree programming can be outsourced and in-sourced, but even that isn't easy. Finding senior people can still be a challenge in China (let alone India). You have rising costs as well in the coastal cities. And there's some… -
Re: UK tax payers to cover 25% tax break
China has enjoyed 30 years of 7%+ growth on the premise of cheap labor from foreign investors who will abandon them the moment their labor stops being cheap. That's why they're manipulating their currency. With so much of their economy reliant on that it would be political and economic suicide at this point to stop. That's… -
Re: UK tax payers to cover 25% tax break
How is it coming out of my pocket??? You aren't making sense. -
Re: UK tax payers to cover 25% tax break
My reaction upon reading your post was 'How?? Foreign studios are going to come in, but they're inevitably going to be hiring British workers.' But that article doesn't seem to reflect your thread title... -
Re: UK tax payers to cover 25% tax break
Except it's not a subsidy... It's not 'cash under the table', it's a reduction in tax. It doesn't come out of public spending. Less money changes hands. Your argument only holds true if more money is being taken in tax elsewhere to compensate. Which it isn't. -
Re: UK tax payers to cover 25% tax break
whats the matter? feel a bit uneasy when the truth comes out? liked it better before when you could snicker at all the people across the pond going bankrupt, having there careers destroyed so you could buy your way into some fake prosperity. -
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if you think that they think that way with 10% to 25% youth unemployment stretching from france to greece and a huge crop of game school chancres to deal with your missing it. there in crisis mode. not the soft fat and happy dopes they were a few years ago. its a fundamentally different climate. there probably even more… -
UK tax payers to cover 25% tax break
following up on my tax credit / kickback in vfx thread i came across this gem. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22185476 the sad thing here is that the artists lost there jobs in the UK and the jobs were shifted to canada and elsewhere to chase the tax breaks. now the UK government is showing a little tax break T&A to… -
Re: UK tax payers to cover 25% tax break
Any developer that meets the criteria is eligible for the tax breaks, no matter the size. The criteria are easy to achieve and are available on-line already. http://www.develop-online.net/news/42752/Revealed-The-video-games-cultural-test We have already lost a lot of work overseas, I have had a few jobs managing outsourced…
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