The Problem With Regulation By Warwick Bartlett The UK government has announced in the Queen’s Speech that a ‘place of consumption tax’ (POC) will be introduced for the providers of online gambling services. It is to be done to create a level playing field amongst those that
Read more →Gambling Ads Helping To Sustain Media Companies By Warwick Bartlett Watching TV the other night I couldn’t help but notice the number of adverts for gambling services. This was not only during ad breaks in football matches but adverts for bingo and casino were appearing on the
Read more →US Internet Cafes: The War on the Other Gambling Black Market Over the past several years, in shopping malls and behind storefronts across the United States, in Internet cafes and adult arcades, computerized sweepstakes games have grown into a massive business, big enough to draw the ire
Read more →Stars Aligning for Casinos in Japan The word from Japan is that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government may include casino development in a new national economic growth plan to be drawn up in June 2013. English-language daily The Japan Times, citing unnamed but “informed” individuals, reports that
Read more →Internet Gambling – Taxes and Law By Warwick Bartlett I always thought from inception that the e-gaming business model was so strong that it would convert governments to the Internet model of providing goods and services in real time at a discounted price to the benefit of
Read more →E-gaming Advertising – Celebrity Works By Warwick Bartlett Loveable East End ‘geezer’ Ray Winstone’s appearance on the BBC’s satirical current affairs programme Have I Got News For You neatly demonstrates the power of brand and advertising and will have pleased online betting firm Bet365 greatly. During the
Read more →GBGC Global Gambling Report Updates The 8th edition of the Global Gambling Report – Raising The Stakes includes the following new features and updates: • Full global gambling appendices for 2011 (sequence now runs from 2007 to 2011) • Updated gambling forecasts until 2017 • Key Markets
Read more →The UK government is sitting on a GB£ 1 billion lottery ‘ticket’ thanks to the National Lottery’s performance in recent years. Lottery duty – the government receives 12% of lottery sales – rose by 7% in 2012, sending GB£ 817 million to the Treasury’s coffers. At that
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