by Alex Dunnagan | May 9, 2022
Rockstar Games has revealed that they claimed £68.4m in Video Games Tax Relief (VGTR) in 2020-2021, equivalent to 38% of the entire amount of VGTR paid out that year. The amount Rockstar are claiming is rising every year, taking the total the US-owned company has...
by Alex Dunnagan | Jan 19, 2020
Rockstar North, the Edinburgh based company behind the wildly successful Grand Theft Auto series, has published its latest accounts, revealing a huge increase in claims for Video Games Tax Relief. As reported in today’s Sunday Telegraph, analysis by TaxWatch...
by George Turner | Nov 18, 2019
An American superhero, a Japanese hedgehog and a simulation about the life of a goat are among the video games that have been able to cash-in on a government scheme to promote ‘culturally British’ games, a new report from TaxWatch has found. Published...
by Alex Dunnagan | Aug 13, 2019
The BFI refuses to disclose information regarding the Grant Theft Auto V tax credit scandal, claiming that it would not be in the public interest to do so. BFI refuses to release any information relating to GTA V being certified ‘culturally British’ Disclosure would...
by George Turner | Jul 28, 2019
Rockstar Games, the creator of Grand Theft Auto, has made an estimated $5bn in operating profit since the release of Grand Theft Auto V in 2013. The game was designed and developed in the UK by Rockstar North Limited based in Edinburgh, but TaxWatch can reveal that...
