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I agree totally with Ian. But unfortunately games are just part of the malaise. The only industries this government seems to sunderstand and support are financial services (however poorly they perform), the wholesale of our industrial and manufacturing heritage to foreign PLCs and raising money from petty motoring offences and the like.
I spit on them from a great height as they continue to sell OUR national family silver and tax us for the privelege.
And I hold them personally responsible for allowing their condescending, unknowing, disregard for small business to totally disempower MY industry in MY country.
They owe us everything.

As well as giving us some tax breaks the following policy changes would also benefit UK developers as a whole:-

a. Allow consultants to work for more than one year exclusively at the same company without having to become employees.
(This policy (which existed under the previous government) was reveresed within a year of Labour coming into power to clamp down on wht they saw as tax dodging mainly in the IT and building trades. The result being that any developers working on a project with more than a year development time (ie: all non-casual games) have to be employed by the company on salary, sickness leave, pensions, health and safety etc etc. Rather than be on a fixed price for the job regardless of time. This shift meant that (a) it was no longer possible for a development company to know their costs of developing a game regardless of overrun of time, (b) it is harder to ditch a bad worker as soon as a project finishes. (c) the workforce becomes inflexible and constant even though often a project only demands 100% of the workforce for less than 50% of the time.
In short we would save a lot of development money if we could revert to most people developing a game being consultants (and it would be better for the key developers in the team too as it is easier for them to negotiate their own price on a job by job basis)

b. Help set up some sort of regulated royalty reprting from games publishers to developers, simliar to MCPS and PRS n the music industry.
(There used to be a time about 12 years ago when royalty statements frequently did not have ZERO written at the bottom. Nowadays many developers do not even bother to negotiate for royalties, in the same way that they do not believe in the tooth fairy. More transparent and standardized roylaty accounting would help to solve this problem without a small developer having to send in a top five firm of auditors as if it were some heavyhitting PLC.
Royalties are the lifeblood of development companies, they are the extra money you do not account for and they allow you to feel good and grow as a company.

c. Standardization of a royalty system for distribution within development teams.
(More controversial, but workable with the above 2 policies in place is the mandatory setting aside of a percentage of any royalties coming in to the development company for distribution within the development team. This can easily be administered by using the consultancy rate paid to the developer on the game as an advance against his own alloted share of royalties.
Such a policy (i) means that should a game do well everyone involved benefits (in a much more transparent and accountable way and not from some nebulus profit share pool but form actual game sales)
(ii) means that should he game fail to sell well enough then there are no roylaty payments and the development company loses no more money than the concultancy fees it agreed in the first place.

All anyone ever wants from their work is:-
(a) recognition for the work they do
(b) enough money to feel safe on a day to day basis
(c) the chance to earn something extra if it all goes well