How to qualify for the Video Game Tax Relief scheme's Cultural Test
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Need a UK-registered company, at least 10% core expenditure on development (programming, design, testing), and the game must be publicly supplied; tax relief is 25% of core spend but capped so it works out to roughly 20% back if all spend is core. Cultural qualification is a 31-point cultural test across content, contribution, cultural hubs and nationality (undetermined settings, design docs or prototypes count), interim/final certificates apply, 172 games certified to date, median budget ~£0.6M.
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