Events & Reports

Belgium’s Constitutional Court Restores VAT Exemption on Online Gambling Services

Belgium’s Constitutional Court Restores VAT Exemption on Online Gambling Services

by March 23, 2018

The Constitutional Court of Belgium annulled on Thursday a 2016 constitutional amendment under which online gambling operators were required to pay a 21% value-added tax on their Belgian operations.Belgium regulated its online gambling market in early 2010 when amendments to ...

UK Court of Appeal Rejects Ladbrokes Appeal in HMRC Tax Battle

UK Court of Appeal Rejects Ladbrokes Appeal in HMRC Tax Battle

by March 23, 2018

The UK Court of Appeal rejected an appeal lodged by Ladbrokes in relation to the gambling operator’s decade-long £71-million tax avoidance battle with HM Revenue and Customs, City A.M. reports.The dispute relates to a 2008 tax scheme deployed by Ladbrokes and accountancy fir ...

Philippine Immigration Officers on the Lookout for Japanese Casino Tycoon Kazuo Okada

Philippine Immigration Officers on the Lookout for Japanese Casino Tycoon Kazuo Okada

by March 22, 2018

The Philippine Department of Justice has announced today that it has issued an Immigration Lookout Bulletin Order against Japanese businessman Kazuo Okada. The order was prompted by two criminal complaints filed by Tiger Resort Leisure and Entertainment, the operator of the Okada ...

CMA Greenlights Ladbrokes Coral Takeover by GVC

CMA Greenlights Ladbrokes Coral Takeover by GVC

by March 21, 2018

Gambling operators GVC Holdings and Ladbrokes Coral received a regulatory green light to complete their £4-million consolidation that could create a new gambling powerhouse within the field.In a statement from earlier today, UK’s Competition and Markets Authority announced i ...

How Will Casino Resorts Change Japan’s Tourism Product? (Infographic)

How Will Casino Resorts Change Japan’s Tourism Product? (Infographic)

by March 20, 2018

The relaxation of visa requirements and the weak yen have unleashed the boom of Japan’s tourism, quadrupling the number of international visits over a five-year period and encouraging increased tourism spending. The country recorded 28,690,932 foreign visits last year, up 19.4% y ...

Italy’s Gambling Regulator Receives around 80 iGaming License Applications

Italy’s Gambling Regulator Receives around 80 iGaming License Applications

by March 20, 2018

Around 80 online gambling license applications were submitted to Italy’s gambling regulator, local news outlets reported on Monday citing sources from the regulatory body.Agenzia delle dogane e dei monopoli, the country’s regulatory body tasked with overseeing its gambling i ...

Affiliate Union Plan Surfaces to Help Affiliates against Predatory Gambling Operators

Affiliate Union Plan Surfaces to Help Affiliates against Predatory Gambling Operators

by March 19, 2018

Online gambling, over the course of its relatively short history, has often proved to be an industry that can be very hostile to the small ones. And iGaming affiliates have too often found themselves to be playing the role of the small ones, despite their numerous contributions t ...

Kindred Group and Betclic Receive Shared Online Poker Liquidity Licenses

Kindred Group and Betclic Receive Shared Online Poker Liquidity Licenses

by March 16, 2018

SPS Betting France Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Malta-based Kindred Group, and Betclic Enterprises Limited became the latest online poker operators to be granted a shared liquidity license from the French online gambling regulator, ARJEL.SPS Betting operates the Uni ...

Ladbrokes Coral and William Hill Probed by FCA over “False Market” Claims

Ladbrokes Coral and William Hill Probed by FCA over “False Market” Claims

by March 16, 2018

The Financial Conduct Authority is looking into allegations that Ladbrokes Coral and William Hill have created a “false market” by quoting certain pieces of information from a report on the impact of a significant cut of the maximum bet on fixed-odds betting terminals, and have t ...

Massachusetts Receives $5.5 Million in Tax Revenue from Slots

Massachusetts Receives $5.5 Million in Tax Revenue from Slots

by March 16, 2018

The State of Massachusetts has collected $5.5 million from slot taxes in February, 82 per cent of which is intended for the Local Aid fund. In its monthly revenue report for Plainridge Park Casino released Thursday, the state gambling regulator announced that since the opening of ...

Melco Holds First Cyprus Casino Job Fair

Melco Holds First Cyprus Casino Job Fair

by March 15, 2018

Melco Resorts & Entertainment has announced that it will hold its first career fair for people interested in working at the casino operator’s integrated resort in the Republic of Cyprus.The first job fair is set to take place on March 16-17 in the city of Limassol, where ...

Google Cracks Down on Cryptocurrency Ads, Upgrades Advertising Policies for Skin Gambling

Google Cracks Down on Cryptocurrency Ads, Upgrades Advertising Policies for Skin Gambling

by March 14, 2018

Google will crack down on cryptocurrency ads as well as content advertising other “unregulated or speculative financial products”, Scott Spencer, Director of Sustainable Ads at the tech corporation, announced in a blog post from earlier today.The announcement comes shortly a ...

Nevada Lawsuit Claims Drug Triggers Pathological Gambling

Nevada Lawsuit Claims Drug Triggers Pathological Gambling

by March 14, 2018

An antipsychotic drug sold in the United States triggers compulsive behavior, including gambling, a lawsuit filed last week in Nevada claims. According to the plaintiffs, the maker and the distributors of the prescription drug Abilify knew about the dangerous side effects but did ...

Disney and Seminole Tribe Pour $700,000 into Florida Casino Amendment Initiative in February

Disney and Seminole Tribe Pour $700,000 into Florida Casino Amendment Initiative in February

by March 13, 2018

The Seminole Tribe of Florida and Disney Worldwide Services, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, contributed collectively the amount of $700,000 in February to Voters in Charge, the political committee behind the Voter Control of Gambling initiative.According to a repor ...

Bookmakers Revel ahead of Cheltenham Festival as Bettors Wager £1 Billion

Bookmakers Revel ahead of Cheltenham Festival as Bettors Wager £1 Billion

by March 12, 2018

Irish bookmaker Paddy Power expects that more than £1 billion will be wagered during the Cheltenham Festival this year in what could become “the biggest betting week in sporting history.” The popular horse racing festival starts tomorrow and will run through March 16.Around ...