BGC: MPs Warn Gambling Tax Hikes Risk Boosting Black Market
MPs have warned that proposed increases in gambling taxation could accelerate the shift of customers from the regulated betting and igaming sector…
Betting and Gaming Council
BGC Chair Michael Dugher to Step Down
Betting and Gaming Council Chair Michael Dugher is stepping down from the industry standards body after six years in senior leadership roles….
BGC Warns Business Rates Risk High Street Betting Shops
The Betting and Gaming Council has warned that the current business rates regime is accelerating the decline of Britain’s high streets, with…
BGC Statement on Rank Group CEO John O’Reilly Stepping Down
The Betting and Gaming Council wishes to pay tribute to Rank Group Chief Executive John O’Reilly following the announcement that he is…
The Morning After The Budget Before
What are we to make of a company that still hasn’t made its mind up how to spell its own name? Or…
“Turkeys” Vote For Christmas: In Major Budget PR Coup iGaming Tackles Child Poverty Turns Tables On Critics
In a day of high dudgeon, if not high treason, featuring a chaotic pre-Autumn Budget leak and red faces from the Treasury…
Budget Preview: Ghost In The Tax Machine or iGaming Quantum of Solace?
After seemingly aeons of leak and speculation the ground-shifting British Budget is nigh, amid very real fears that big much-touted hikes in…
BGC: Latest Figures on Young People and Gambling Released
Today, the Gambling Commission has published its Young People and Gambling Report 2025 – the annual study that helps understand children’s and…
BGC Warns Rise in Machine Games Duty Will Threaten Casino Jobs and Investment
The Betting and Gaming Council Casino Group has warned that any increase in Machine Games Duty (MGD) in the upcoming Budget would…
BGC: Further Tax Raid on Betting Threatens 40,000 Jobs and £3bn Blow to UK Economy, Warns New Analysis
A further tax raid on Britain’s betting and gaming industry would devastate jobs, undermine the economy, and drive billions into the hands…