In the wake of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown receiving the go-ahead from the Queen to dissolve Parliament and hold general elections on May 6, game industry group [URL=http://www.tiga.org/]TIGA[/URL] has issued its own agenda for the next Parliament.

The “Election Manifesto” ([URL=http://www.tiga.org/Documents/Tiga_Manifesto.pdf]PDF[/URL]) promotes three “pressing” issues to deal with: the introduction of Games Tax Relief as soon as possible, retention and expansion of the SME R&D tax credit scheme (from 175.0 percent of qualifying expenditures to 200.0 percent) and a decrease in tuition fees for students studying subjects that correlate those needed by game developers.

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