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UK Budget 2012: £100 million investment in broadband across 10 cities
Chancellor George Osborne, as part of the UK's 2012 Budget announcements, has revealed that 10 cities will benefit from £100 million worht of investment in super-fast broadband. Christened as "super-connected cities", Belfast, Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds, London, Manchester…
UK Budget 2012: Video games sector gets tax relief
UK games developers can breathe a little easier today, as Chancellor George Osborne's 2012 Budget will reintroduce tax relief for the UK video games industry. Also offering tax relief to animation and television programming production sectors, the move sees the…
UK budget hits games industry hard, includes VAT rise
The coalition Government have announced the details of their "Emergency" budget, and it makes for grim news for anyone in the UK games industry. The planned tax relief for games companies has been scrapped by chancellor George Osbourne, which…
£6 a year broadband tax heading to UK households
A £6 a year tax will be added to your landline telephone bill, Chancellor Alastair Darling has revealed today. A further 50p per month will be added to the bill for each extra phone line installed in residents' houses. Following…
