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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For Sale: Evoke Provoked Now Broke Chokes No Joke
BREAKING NEWS: UK gambling giant Evoke, the shattered, deracinated shell of once mighty 888 Holdings has put itself up for sale. Last…
“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…
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…
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…
iGaming and Wider Gambling Taxes in Labour Party Conference Firing Line
Amid tumbling polling figures, a group of over 101 socialist MPs attending today’s Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, have called for swingeing…
From Harmonisation To Horror, UK Gambling Industry Bracing For Tax Grab
The UK gambling industry is bracing to face more upheaval as what began as a plan to streamline online gambling taxes is…
Look Ma No New Gambling Taxes!
In the end the much-predicted tax raid on British gambling in yesterday’s swingeing £40 billion (US$51.83bn) budget didn’t materialise. It was a…
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…