Breaking Bad: BGC Slams Tax Hikes As Boost For Black Market
Grainne Hurst, Chief Executive of the UK gambling industry’s representative Betting and Gaming Council (BGC), has slammed the Labour government’s impending iGaming…
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Every Bet You Make, We’ll Be Taxing You, Plans Michigan Governor
Spurred by the example of neighbouring Illinois, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is proposing to embrace a new tax-per-bet regime, with the specific…
Meet Me At The Crossroads: KPMG Vegas Gaming Guru Rick Arpin Talks To iGF
American gambling is full of contradictions, but one industry veteran has crushed market dynamics and knows where things are heading: Meet U.S….
Where In The World Are Ceuta and Melilla? And Why Should We Care?
EXCLUSIVE: You may very well ask, where in the world are Ceuta and Melilla? And why should we care? The answer is, just…
UK Chancellor Slams iGaming, Hikes Online Gambling Taxes
In a blistering attack on online betting, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves slammed iGaming today and hiked remote gambling…
UK Budget Latest: Gambling Taxes To Rise, Raising Extra £1.1 Billion
BREAKING STORY: In another major embarrassment for the UK government, full details of today’s Autumn Budget, outlining a £1.1 billion increase in…
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…
Done And Dusted, Higher Taxes Will Destroy Bookies Warns Betfred Owner
For Betfred founder Fred Done it all began with a £25 punt on England winning the 1966 World Cup. But 60-years later…
Flutter’s Paddy Power Beat Rivals To The Punch, KOs 57 Bookies
As so often, Flutter Entertainment has beaten its rivals to the punch and announced the shuttering of 57 of its iconic Paddy…
Bets, Banks and Billionaires, Brazil iGaming [And Other Bs] Facing Massive Tax Hikes
Brazil’s ruling Workers’ Party call it the “BBB Tax” — for Bets, Banks and Billionaires. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s leftist…
A William Hill Wind Blows Evoke No Good
The threat by UK gambling mega channel Entain to shutter its high street bookies if hit by big new taxes has now…
Pursued By Swingeing Taxes, Will It Be A Case of New York New York For UK Gambling Giant Entain?
It was the move that launched Flutter into the stratosphere and arguably made them the biggest player in the gambling galaxy, Now…
Trump Tariffs Trigger Massive Mexico Gambling Tax Hike
EXCLUSIVE: Mexico, Latin America’s largest gambling market, is facing a massive 50 percent hike in direct betting taxes, and the move has…
British Horse Racing Goes On Strike For First Time In History
British horse racing, sport of kings and commoners, and mainstay of iconic High Street betting shops, goes on strike today for the…
Heaven Or Hell, Surging Gambling Industry Backlash To Feared Tax Hikes
Opposition to the high-level intervention of Labour Party mandarin and former British prime minister Gordon Brown calling for massive gambling tax hikes…
Louisiana Ices Controversial Gaming Tax Hike
Louisiana lawmakers, facing a massive US$700 million (£545.7m) state budget deficit, have ducked a controversial proposal to hike gambling taxes from 15…
Gambling Taxes Set To Soar Around The World
Leading nations around the world are poised to significantly increase taxes on their gambling and iGaming industries as part of their fix…
Biting The Hand That’s Fed It, Labour Plans £3bn Raid On Gambling Industry
You can almost imagine a Blair-Starmer double act, co-opting a favourite catchphrase and delivering in unison: “And not a lot of people…
Carrots or Stick, Will Middling Ohio Kick-start U.S. iGaming?
Tempted by the prospect of generating some US$650 million (£500m) in additional annual tax revenues, Ohio is seriously considering becoming the eighth…