GTA 6 will have a high development capital, far ahead of GTA 5?

Even though it has grown GTA 5 – one of the most successful games of all time, bringing in a huge amount of income, but Rockstar has repeatedly asked the British government for tax breaks. Recently, the UK tax watchdog TaxWatch has published an investigation result with Rockstar Games, the books show that the company has received 37.6 million pounds (nearly 49 million USD) in tax exemptions from the government, accounting for 37% of the total tax exemptions of the gaming industry in the UK in 2018-2019. Moreover, this is also the largest exemption in the industry. It is known that in total Rockstar has received 80 million pounds ($104 million) from the government’s VGTR policy with game developers, moreover the company has not paid a single dollar of tax to the UK for 4 consecutive years. .​

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VGTR is a preferential tax exemption policy for game developers, if the game that the developer is exploiting has “British culture”, the developer has the right to submit an application for tax exemption. In fact, the conditions to enjoy this policy are very simple, for example, the studio has a development team that is a British citizen, you can say that it has “British culture”. Tom Clancy’s The Division, Sonic the Hedgehog or Halo Wars have all benefited from this policy.​

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Of course, the focus this time is not on whether Rockstar has evaded taxes or not, it can be seen that in the past year this company has applied for a huge tax exemption and reduction, in addition to the series. GTA Turns out, they don’t have a game with “British culture” anymore. That’s why TaxWatch thinks that Rockstar has used this huge amount of capital to invest in its unpublished blockbuster game – GTA 6Moreover, the amount of capital this company spends to develop GTA 6 will be much higher than the development capital of GTA 5 ($137 million).

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This shows that Rockstar is focusing on investing heavily to develop GTA 6, bringing exciting experiences to gamers. However, due to the high development cost, some experts predict that GTA 6 may cost more than all previous versions.​