Legal casino gambling age in BoliviaBolivia regulates gambling through a single national statute, Law No. 060 on Lottery Games and Games of Chance of 25 November 2010, and a single regulator, the Autoridad de Fiscalización del Juego (AJ, Gambling Oversight Authority), which sits under the Ministry of Economy and Public Finance. The model is one of licensing rather than prohibition: games of chance are lawful when the AJ has licensed the operator, and unlawful otherwise. In practice the licensed market is very small. Lotteries are reserved to public bodies, chiefly the state lottery LONABOL, and the AJ’s own reports show only one licensed private casino operator in recent years. The AJ takes the position that Law 060 also covers online gambling and has issued online gaming rules, but it states that no online betting or casino site holds its authorisation.
Key points
- Law No. 060 (2010), amended by Law No. 717 (2015), is the basic gambling statute. It is implemented by Supreme Decrees No. 781 and No. 782 of 2 February 2011 and by AJ regulatory resolutions.
- The AJ is the only body that may license, supervise and sanction gambling operators. Lotteries may be organised only by public entities, chiefly the national lottery LONABOL.
- The AJ states that no online betting or casino site is authorised in Bolivia. It has had unlicensed sites suspended and has filed criminal complaints against local promoters of online betting.
- Two special taxes apply: a 30% gambling tax (IJ) on operators’ gross income and a 15% participation tax (IPJ) charged to players on the price of chips, tickets and similar instruments.
- Under-18s may not enter gaming establishments. The AJ’s responsible gambling regulation restricts advertising and provides for a register of self-excluded persons.
- As of October 2026 no bill to create a regulated online betting or casino market had been found before the Legislative Assembly, although the Bolivian Football Federation was lobbying for one.
Last reviewed: 6 October 2026.
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Historical development
Organised gambling in Bolivia grew around the national lottery. According to the regional lottery association CIBELAE, the Lotería Nacional de Beneficencia y Salubridad (LONABOL) was established in 1928, and during the Chaco War of 1932–35 it gave direct support to the Bolivian Red Cross.
Before 2010 there was no dedicated gambling regulator. Casinos, bingo halls and slot rooms operated under arrangements with LONABOL, to which operators paid concession fees. Two provisions of the 2010–2011 reform record this: the transitional article of Law No. 060 gave existing gaming companies 120 days to adapt to the new law and left them under LONABOL’s control in the meantime, and Supreme Decree No. 782 provided that operators would stop paying concession fees to the national lottery and pay the new gambling taxes instead.
Law No. 060 was enacted on 25 November 2010 under President Evo Morales. It created the regulator, originally called the Autoridad de Fiscalización y Control Social del Juego, and two national taxes. Supreme Decree No. 781 of 2 February 2011 gave existing companies 100 calendar days from the start of the AJ’s operations to apply for a licence, and provided that those who did not obtain one could not continue to operate. The result was a sharp contraction of the legal market. In February 2014 the news portal eju.tv reported that only two companies, Curucusí Games S.R.L. and Max Entertainment S.R.L., met the AJ’s requirements. In 2013 alone, the AJ closed 497 gaming establishments and seized 3,152 machines.
The first casino licensed by the AJ, Casino Flamingo in Santa Cruz, opened in February 2014. As reported by HoyBolivia, the operator Curucusí Games S.R.L. had begun the licensing process in 2011 and received its operating licence in April 2013. In July 2015 Law No. 717 amended Law 060 and renamed the regulator the Autoridad de Fiscalización del Juego.
Legal framework
Bolivia is a unitary, though decentralised, state. Gambling is regulated at the national level, with defined roles for departmental and municipal governments. The principal instruments are:
- Law No. 060 on Lottery Games and Games of Chance of 25 November 2010, published in the Official Gazette on 29 November 2010. It sets out the basic rules on lotteries, games of chance and business promotions, creates the regulator and establishes the gambling taxes.
- Supreme Decree No. 781 of 2 February 2011 and its regulation, which develop Title III of the law: the regulator, licences, authorisations and sanctions.
- Supreme Decree No. 782 of 2 February 2011 and its regulation, which develop Title IV, the tax regime.
- Supreme Decree No. 2174 of 6 November 2014, on the sanctioning procedure, and Supreme Decree No. 2600 of 18 November 2015, which made further regulatory changes (both listed against Law 060 on the Lexivox legal database).
- Law No. 717 of 13 July 2015, which amended Law 060, changed the tax rules for business promotions, added sanctions and renamed the regulator.
- AJ regulatory resolutions, including technical rules for electronic lotteries (2014), online gaming rules (2021) and a regulation on the prevention of gambling addiction and the promotion of responsible gambling (updated in 2022).
Main definitions and rules
Law 060 defines a game of chance (Article 5) as a game in which winning or losing depends on luck rather than skill and in which the player pays or bets to take part in return for a prize in money or kind. A business promotion (Article 7) is a prize draw used to increase sales, with no participation fee. Article 8 prohibits betting for profit except as a means of taking part in an authorised game of chance. Social and family games not exploited commercially fall outside the law (Article 2); Law 717 also excluded raffles and games held at fairs, occasional public events or for charitable purposes.
Two provisions matter especially for online gambling. Article 9 states that games may be played by “mechanical, electromechanical, electromagnetic, digital, technological, manual or any other means”. Article 10 prohibits the installation of gaming machines outside authorised establishments.
Article 15 lists conduct forbidden to operators. They may not operate without authorisation, take part in their own games, install cash machines or accept credit or debit cards, accept goods as stakes, allow play on credit, or withhold or delay prizes. Premises may not be near schools, health facilities, care homes or churches. Under Article 20, municipalities authorise the location of gaming premises.
Sanctions
Fines under Law 060 are set in UFV (Unidades de Fomento de Vivienda), an inflation-indexed unit of account. Under Article 28, installing unauthorised machines, operating without an AJ licence or offering prohibited games are serious infringements punishable by seizure of the machines and a fine of 5,000 UFV per machine. Fraud, withholding prizes or admitting prohibited persons attract 10,000 UFV. Minor infringements carry 2,000 UFV, and a third serious infringement within a year, or transferring a licence, leads to revocation. Law 717 added a fine of twice the prize value where an organiser fails to transfer unclaimed prizes, or prizes without a winner, to LONABOL. Criminal liability arises separately: the AJ refers cases to the Public Ministry, citing offences such as illicit enrichment and money laundering.
Regulator and licensing model
Under Article 21 of Law 060 the AJ is a public institution with its own legal personality and assets and with administrative, financial, legal and technical autonomy, under the supervision of the Ministry of Economy and Public Finance. It is “the only entity” authorised to grant licences and authorisations and to supervise, control and sanction gambling operations. Its powers (Article 26) include issuing regulations, inspecting premises, seizing equipment and setting maximum stakes. The AJ publishes news, resolutions and statistics on its website.
Licences and authorisations
The system distinguishes licences, which allow commercial operation of games of chance and draws, from authorisations, which cover business promotions and certain one-off draws. According to the regulation to Decree No. 781 and the AJ’s frequently asked questions, a licence may be held only by a commercial company incorporated and domiciled in Bolivia whose line of business is the operation of games of chance and draws. The company must have paid-up capital of at least 1.5 million UFV, submit a feasibility project covering premises, investment and finances, and operate in closed halls or casinos with prior municipal approval. Licences last up to ten years and are renewable. Current licence requirements are set out in AJ Regulatory Resolution No. 01-00001-23 of 27 January 2023; online gaming is governed by Resolution No. 01-00001-21 of 1 April 2021. The regulator does not publish licence fees in the texts reviewed for this guide.
Licensed operators
The licensed market is very small. The AJ’s institutional report for 2022 names two licence holders: LONABOL, licensed in 2021 for ten years, and the casino operator Curucusí, licensed in 2020 for eight years. In a 2022 interview with Gaming and Media, then executive director Jessica Saravia described Flamingo Curucusí as the one authorised casino and said its licence had been renewed in March 2021, with operations resuming on 2 September 2021. The two sources differ on the year of the licence. No public register of licensees was found on the AJ website, and no source reviewed showed a second casino licence in force in 2026.
Business promotions form the largest part of the AJ’s licensing workload. In 2025 it authorised 1,226 business promotions, through which companies gave away prizes worth about BOB 573 million, according to the AJ results reported by Yogonet in March 2026.
The state lottery
Under Article 11 of Law 060, lotteries may be organised only by public entities at central, departmental or municipal level. LONABOL is the national operator and holds an AJ licence. AJ Regulatory Resolution No. 01-00003-14 of 16 January 2014, on electronic lottery systems, reserves those games to licensed public bodies. It requires 50% of gross ticket sales to be allocated to prizes and the remainder, after operating costs, to charitable and health purposes. On 22 April 2026 LONABOL launched an online ticket shop, according to Yogonet. It is, so far as the sources show, the only online sale of a gambling product carried out under AJ supervision.
Online gambling
What is permitted
Law 060 does not mention the internet expressly. In March 2021 the AJ stated that Article 9, which allows games by “digital” and “technological” means, gives it power to license and supervise online gambling, and that all gaming activity requires its authorisation (Correo del Sur). The AJ has since adopted online gaming rules, a central online control system and, in November 2022, authorised a testing laboratory to certify online games, according to its 2022 report. Despite this framework, no online operator appears to have been licensed. In July 2025 the AJ stated that “there are currently no online betting sites authorised by the AJ” (Focus Gaming News; SBC Noticias).
Offshore operators and site suspension
The AJ treats unlicensed websites as illegal. As early as October 2020 it warned that betting sites, bingos and draws promoted on social media without authorisation “constitute illegal activities” (AJ press release). In October 2023 the AJ reported that, in coordination with the state Agency for the Development of the Information Society (ADSIB), it had secured the suspension of 27 online betting and casino pages that year (Correo del Sur; Yogonet). Bolivia does not appear to have a published blocklist, a statutory duty on internet providers to block, or a rule requiring banks to refuse payments to gambling sites, as some neighbouring countries do.
Enforcement has focused on local intermediaries. In July 2025 the AJ opened administrative proceedings and filed a criminal complaint with the Public Ministry against a person who ran an online sports betting operation through a website and WhatsApp groups and took payments by QR bank transfer into personal accounts (Focus Gaming News).
Advertising
The AJ’s responsible gambling regulation, as described in its 2022 report, restricts advertising: for land-based games publicity may be placed only inside the gaming hall, and for online games only on the operator’s official website. Advertising of unlicensed gambling has no lawful basis. In September 2025 the AJ said it had notified content creators and sports pages that promoted unauthorised platforms, and that it imposes sanctions of 5,000 UFV and refers cases to prosecutors; it also acknowledged that such promotions continued to circulate on social media (El Día). According to Yogonet, about two years before October 2026 the AJ told the Bolivian Football Federation that betting sponsors could not appear on club shirts.
Position of players
Law 060 is directed at operators. Its sanctions concern unauthorised operation, unauthorised machines and breaches by licensees, and Article 8 prohibits betting for profit outside authorised games. No provision found in the law or its regulations penalises an individual for playing on an unlicensed website, and no prosecution or fine of a player was found in the sources reviewed.
Players are nonetheless exposed. The AJ repeatedly warns that unlicensed sites operate without supervision and that users risk fraud (Correo del Sur; SBC Noticias). The player rights in Article 17 of the law, such as information, payment of prizes and complaints, can be enforced only against licensed operators. Players also bear the IPJ participation tax when they gamble with a licensed operator, as explained below. People can check whether an activity is authorised, or report illegal gambling, through the AJ website, the AJ Móvil app or regional WhatsApp lines (AJ).
Taxation
Title IV of Law 060 created two national taxes, which took effect when Supreme Decree No. 782 was published in February 2011. The National Tax Service (SIN) administers them.
- Gambling tax (Impuesto al Juego, IJ). Payable by operators of games of chance and draws, and by organisers of business promotions. For games of chance the base is gross income from the activity, net of value added tax (VAT). The implementing regulation defines this as gross income from the sale of chips, tickets, cards and similar instruments. The rate is 30% for games of chance and draws and 10% for business promotions. Since Law No. 717, the promotions base is the total value of the prizes, with prizes in kind valued at market price. The IJ is declared monthly and goes entirely to the National Treasury.
- Participation tax (Impuesto a la Participación en Juegos, IPJ). The taxpayer is the individual player. The tax arises when a player buys tickets, cards, chips or any other means of taking part, at a rate of 15% of the selling price net of VAT. It must be shown separately on the invoice and is collected by the operator (Articles 42–48 of Law 060). Under Article 49, 70% of IPJ revenue goes to the National Treasury and 15% each to departmental and municipal governments, with most of it earmarked for charity, health and sport.
The regulation to Decree No. 782 exempts lotteries run by central and departmental governments, charitable raffles and games of skill without stakes. No separate tax on players’ winnings was found in Law 060 or its regulations. For LONABOL’s electronic lottery games, however, Resolution No. 01-00003-14 provides for a 12% deduction from first-prize winnings for charitable purposes. No official figure for receipts from the two taxes was found.
Consumer protection and responsible gambling
Article 16 of Law 060 bars the following from gaming establishments: people under 18, people judicially declared incapable, people who are visibly drunk or under the influence of drugs, people carrying weapons (other than police on duty) and people unable to show official identification.
The AJ’s Regulation for the Prevention of Gambling Addiction and the Promotion of Responsible Gambling was updated in 2022 (AJ, 2022 report). According to Saravia’s 2022 interview with Gaming and Media, it provides for a General Register of Self-Excluded and Suspended Persons. No public information was found on how to enrol in the register, how many people are listed, or whether it is fully operational, and no national gambling helpline was identified. Licence applicants must present a problem gambling prevention plan (Yogonet). For general advice, see our responsible gambling guide.
Recent and upcoming developments
Enforcement, 2023–2026
The AJ continues to report regular raids. It destroyed 639 seized machines in 2024 under a recycling agreement signed in October 2024 (Focus Gaming News). In 2025 it intervened at 82 illegal gaming venues, seized 119 gaming devices and destroyed 230 machines (Yogonet). In September 2026 its website reported a raid in Santa Cruz in which 37 machines and four poker tables were seized.
Calls to regulate online betting
Trade commentary has speculated that the government of President Rodrigo Paz, in office since 8 November 2025, might reform Law 060, but no government bill, decree or official policy statement on online gambling was found. In October 2025, before the run-off, iGaming Expert reported that a legislative proposal from 2020 to legalise online gambling was still pending and that neither candidate had addressed gambling. That proposal could not be traced in Assembly records for this guide.
The most concrete initiative comes from sport. On 1 October 2026 Yogonet reported that Fernando Costa, president of the Bolivian Football Federation (FBF), was seeking a reform of Law 060 to regulate sports betting so that clubs could receive sponsorship revenue and the state tax income. The issue had become sensitive after the FBF’s September 2025 sponsorship deal with a company whose name resembled an offshore betting brand; the AJ said the sponsor was a sports news channel and not a gambling operator (El Día).
As of 6 October 2026, therefore, Law 060 remains unchanged on online gambling. The AJ claims jurisdiction over online gaming and has technical rules for it, but has not licensed any online casino or betting operator.
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Sources and further reading
- Lexivox, Ley Nº 060 de Juegos de Lotería y de Azar, 25 de noviembre de 2010 (2010).
- Lexivox, Ley Nº 717: modificaciones e incorporaciones a la Ley Nº 060 (2015).
- Lexivox, Decreto Supremo Nº 781, 2 de febrero de 2011 (2011).
- Lexivox, Reglamento de desarrollo parcial de la Ley Nº 060, Título III (DS 781) (2011).
- Lexivox, Decreto Supremo Nº 782, 2 de febrero de 2011 (2011).
- Lexivox, Reglamento de desarrollo parcial de la Ley Nº 060, Título IV (DS 782) (2011).
- Autoridad de Fiscalización del Juego, Resolución Regulatoria Nº 01-00003-14: especificaciones técnicas para sistemas de juegos de lotería electrónica (2014).
- Autoridad de Fiscalización del Juego, Memoria Institucional Gestión 2022 (2023).
- Autoridad de Fiscalización del Juego, Preguntas frecuentes y sugerencias (accessed 6 October 2026).
- Autoridad de Fiscalización del Juego, La Autoridad del Juego alerta sobre juegos ilegales en redes sociales (2020).
- Autoridad de Fiscalización del Juego, Sitio oficial (accessed 6 October 2026).
- CIBELAE, Lotería Nacional de Beneficencia y Salubridad (accessed 6 October 2026).
- HoyBolivia, El primer casino de Bolivia ya funciona en Santa Cruz (2014).
- eju.tv, En Bolivia existen solo dos empresas de juegos legales (2014).
- Correo del Sur, AJ aclara que la Ley 060 regula el juego en línea (2021).
- Correo del Sur, AJ logró suspender 27 páginas de apuestas y casinos en línea (2023).
- Yogonet, La Autoridad de Juego de Bolivia suspendió 27 sitios de apuestas y juego online ilegales (2023).
- Gaming and Media, Saravia (AJ Bolivia): control y fiscalización eficientes para un juego justo, legal y transparente (2022).
- Focus Gaming News, La AJ de Bolivia denuncia a organizadores de apuestas deportivas ilegales (2025).
- SBC Noticias, La AJ de Bolivia inicia acciones legales contra plataformas de apuestas ilegales (2025).
- El Día, La AJ niega que empresa auspiciadora de la FBF tenga vínculos con apuestas deportivas (2025).
- iGaming Expert, Illegal casino bust in Bolivia strengthens reform calls (2025).
- Yogonet, La AJ comparte los resultados de la gestión 2025 y destaca el aumento de promociones empresariales (2026).
- Yogonet, La Lotería Nacional de Bolivia pone en marcha una plataforma para la comercialización de billetes online (2026).
- Yogonet, El fútbol boliviano busca abrir el mercado de apuestas deportivas para financiar los clubes y generar nuevos recursos (2026).
