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Georgia Senate approves new limits on video game tax credits

The Georgia State Senate on Tuesday voted 46-0 in favor of a bill that would establish new limits on tax credits for the video game industry. The new limits would cap tax credits at $25 million across the state's game companies.

Tom Curtis, Blogger

March 28, 2012

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The Georgia State Senate on Tuesday voted 46-0 in favor of a bill that would establish new limits on tax credits for the state's video game industry. If passed into law, the bill would cap the existing 30 percent income tax credit at $25 million across all of the state's game companies, and individual companies would be eligible to receive no more than $5 million. While these new limits would restrict the industry's tax credits, the Senate actually introduced a key amendment in favor of Georgia's game developers. Prior to entering the Senate, the bill aimed to get rid of the tax credits altogether. According to the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Senate majority leader Chip Rogers (R-Woodstock) said that the individual limits on game companies will help smaller studios benefit from the available tax credits. "We're encouraging the small companies to take this as opposed to one large company," he said. Now that the Senate has amended the bill, it must return to the House for approval before moving forward.

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Tom Curtis

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Tom Curtis is Associate Content Manager for Gamasutra and the UBM TechWeb Game Network. Prior to joining Gamasutra full-time, he served as the site's editorial intern while earning a degree in Media Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

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