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Withholding Tax Relief: Statement from German Cultural and Creative Industry Associations
Together with our colleagues from other associations in the German cultural and creative industries, we welcome the planned increase in the tax-exempt threshold from 10,000 euros to 100,000 euros per year for royalty payments to foreign authors and rights holders, and at the same time call for further action.
Game of the Year Jury: The nominated games 2026
The Jury "Spiel des Jahres e.V." association announced this year's nominations and recommendation lists on May 19, 2026. Three games each were nominated for "Spiel des Jahres", "Kinderspiel des Jahres" and "Kennerspiel des Jahres".
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Göttingen Game Designers' Meeting 2026
We mourn the loss of Reinhold Wittig
In future, VG WORT will use the board game database of the Altenburg Game Archive, run by the Spielen Foundation, as an additional reference for determining library royalties
75 years of the Nuremberg Spielwarenmesse: Congratulations!
Bureaucratic Monster: Withholding Tax for Foreign Authors
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Carlo E. Lanzavecchia
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Liesbeth Bos
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Marco Teubner
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Klaus Teuber
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Reiner Knizia
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