Spanish Government committed to the video game sector as a lever for economic recovery

• Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has expressed the support of the national Government to the video game sector, as a leading sector in the digital economy, emphasizing its double “cultural and industrial” component in the presentation of the Recovery Plan of the Spanish Economic, which took place last week in the Moncloa Palace, with the participation of AEVI.
• The Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan includes the historical commitment to “position Spain as a reference center for the video game sector, by promoting the recruitment of investors and talent, by simplifying requirements and by promoting the ecosystem of companies and professionals in the area of production in
• Spanish and other languages”, together with the audiovisual production industries.
  In its permanent dialogue with the Government, AEVI has been calling for a commitment to the video game sector as a lever for economic reconstruction by creating an attractive ecosystem for investment in Spain through the extension of tax incentives for other cultural industries to the production of video games.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez personally expressed the support of the Government of Spain to the video game, as a leading sector in the digital economy, emphasizing its double “cultural and industrial” aspect in the presentation of the Recovery Plan of the Spanish Economic, that took place last wednesday in the Palace of the Moncloa, with the participation of Alberto González Lorca and José María Moreno, president and general director of the Spanish Association of Video games (AEVI) respectively, who attended as representatives of the video game sector.

AEVI has been permanently encouraging the Government to support the video game as a lever for reconstruction by creating an attractive ecosystem for investment in Spain through the extension of tax incentives of other cultural industries, by reforming the Corporate Tax Law. These deductions are already applied to film productions, audiovisual series or live performances of performing arts and music, significantly improving their competitiveness. In addition, this is a tax framework that is already established in several leading countries in our environment as France, United Kingdom or Italy and major powers in the sector as Canada and the United States.