“We are winning the argument on the importance of the industry,” Richard Wilson, CEO of developer trade association Tiga, has said in response to the publication of the government’s Digital Britain report.

The report outlines the principal challenges facing the UK videogames industry and the actions required to address them, including the possibility of introducing tax relief for the sector.

“We are winning the argument on tax,” said Wilson. “The government has made a categorical commitment in a White Paper to work with the games industry to collect and examine the case for a tax break for games production and to give serious consideration to the proposal. This represents major progress.

“The government has at last officially recognised that support by overseas governments for their games industries has put the UK development sector at a disadvantage and that many independent developers do not have sufficient support to enable them to maintain ownership of their intellectual property.

“Tiga will continue to collect and provide the evidence that the government needs to justify the enactment of a tax break for games production,” he added. “We hope that the government will publish concrete proposals for a tax break for games production in the pre-budget report in November 2009.”

Earlier this week Wilson told us how Tiga plans to address the current threats to the health of UK games industry as he unveiled two new projects: the formation of an All-Party Parliamentary Group to raise awareness of the issues facing the games industry within Parliament, and Play Together, a joint initiative with NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology, and the Arts) to foster greater collaboration within the UK development community.