Gambling Taxes Uk

Online betting companies based in offshore havens to sidestep Britain's gambling taxes will be hit with a new levy that may raise £300m for the taxpayer.

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Gambling and Taxation Essentially betting is ‘tax-free’ in the UK – the professional gambler is outside the scope of tax. This is confirmed in HMRC’s Business Income Manual at BIM22015. The basic position is that betting and gambling, as such, do not constitute trading. New Tax Challenges for the UK Gambling Industry On Monday,October 29, the UK Treasury convened to decide on a number of issues regarding the future budget. Chancellor Phillip Hammond was among the attendees who delivered a set of proposed measures that affect the gambling industry specifically.

The Government is to impose a 15% tax rate on operators in the £2bn remote gambling market.

Gambling Taxes in the UK. All kinds of gambling activities in the United Kingdom are subject to taxation. Land-based sportsbooks and casinos, as well as online operators, have to pay a tax, which is usually a percentage of the revenue or other form, depending on the type of gaming services. UK Government revenue from gambling industry. In the UK, the gambling industry is huge. In 2017, government revenue, i.e., tax, from the gambling industry, reached £13.8 billion. Ten years ago, gambling laws in the UK were liberalized. Since then, tax revenue from gambling has risen by 65%. The Gambling Act 2005 came into force in 2007. Liz Ritchie, of the Gambling with Lives charity, said gambling is a 'serious addiction and costs lives'. She added: 'There are 250-650 gambling-related suicides per year in the UK and suicides.

The rules state that from December 2014 gambling must be taxed according to where customers are based rather than where the online operator is registered.

'It is unacceptable that gambling companies can avoid UK taxes by moving offshore, and the Government is taking decisive action to ensure this can no longer happen,' Economic Secretary to the Treasury Sajid Javid said.

'These reforms will ensure that remote gambling operators who have UK customers make a fair contribution to the public finances.'

The shift will affect some of the industry's largest players.

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Ladbrokes, Bwin.party, William Hill and Betfair all have online operations based in Gibraltar, where taxes are levied at 1% and capped at £425,000.

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The proposed 15% rate, which the Government said will be confirmed in its Budget statement next March, would mean that offshore operators are taxed at the same level as domestic internet betting companies.

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Officials estimates that the new rules will bring in £300m a year in additional tax revenue.

Plans to bring offshore gaming companies under the UK tax system were outlined in the 2012 Budget, but the industry had been waiting for the detail - most crucially the rate at which they will be taxed.

William Hill, which has the largest share of the UK's remote gambling market, has previously suggested that it could challenge the changes on the grounds that they breach European Union competition law.

The Gambling Commission said that the estimated worldwide remote gross gambling yield (GGY) - excluding telephone betting - was £21.08bn during 2012, up 5% on the previous year.

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It said the UK consumer GGY generated with operators regulated overseas, which includes telephone betting, is estimated to have grown approximately 1% between 2011 and 2012.

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The commission said remote GGY for operators licensed in Great Britain accounts for approximately 4% of the global total.