{"id":903,"date":"2010-04-04T20:27:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T02:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=903"},"modified":"2010-04-04T20:27:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T02:27:49","slug":"videogame-tax-breaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2010\/04\/videogame-tax-breaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Videogame Tax Breaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is interesting news:  tax breaks for the videogame industry:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/joystick-money1.png\" alt=\"Joystick and Money\" title=\"Joystick and Money\" width=\"200\" height=\"220\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-949\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The government has finally recognised the importance of the games industry as a revenue generator for the UK. Surely the fact that everyone&#8217;s a gamer now must have helped&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; After months of persistent lobbying by the industry&#8217;s trade body Tiga, the government has agreed to work out a range of tax breaks for UK games companies. <\/p>\n<p>&#8230; But is there more to this than economics? Does the government&#8217;s shift in stance symbolise a fundamental change in the perception of videogames, away from a demonised social scourge and toward a vital cultural force?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/gamesblog\/2010\/mar\/28\/games-events\">Keith Stuart @ guardian.co.uk<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is interesting news: tax breaks for the videogame industry: The government has finally recognised the importance of the games industry as a revenue generator for the UK. Surely the fact that everyone&#8217;s a gamer now must have helped&#8230;. &#8230; After months of persistent lobbying by the industry&#8217;s trade body Tiga, the government has agreed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-taxation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}