Germany passes new sports betting tax
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The German government yesterday passed a law to tax all sports bets in the country at 5% of turnover from 1 July.
The amendment to the Horse Racing Act, aimed at including foreign online ...
5050Poker licence suspended by LGA
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Former Microgaming skin 5050Poker has its poker licence suspended by issuing authority the Malta Lotteries and Gaming Authority (LGA).
The regulator’s move follows hard on the ...
Betfair to test German laws with Bayer sponsorship
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Betfair will become a “premium partner” of German Bundesliga football team Bayer 04 Leverkusen next season, in a move set to test the country’s contradictory new gambling laws.
The ...
Microgaming launches The Dark Knight
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Microgaming has launched new video slot The Dark Knight to coincide with the release of the final film in director Christopher Nolan’s Batman triology later this summer.
The Dark ...
Italian cash poker stabilises as Stars, Microgame dominate
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Italy’s cash poker market showed signs of stabilisation in May following the substantial declines of previous months, according to the latest dataset from Italian regulator AAMS.
Gross ...
Sports betting slump hinders Italian recovery
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Signs of recovery in Italy’s regulated online gambling market last month were undermined by a poor performance from the country’s ailing fixed-odds sports betting segment, the ...
Ladbrokes issues online profit warning
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High street bookmaking giant Ladbrokes has warned it expects first-half profit from its digital division to be “around half” what it was a year ago.
The bookmaker had previously ...
Titan Poker, Winner and Bet-At-Home blocked in Denmark
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The Danish Gambling Authority has blacklisted and ordered the blocking of 12 websites targeting the country’s online gambling market without a local licence.
Denmark’s dot.dk online ...
Shuffle Master backs out of Ongame deal
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US casino supplier Shuffle Master has pulled out of a deal to buy the Ongame poker network from bwin.party, blaming deteriorating conditions in the European poker market.
Shuffle Master ...
UK online gambling bill gets second reading
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MP Matthew Hancock’s Offshore Gambling Bill to introduce a place-of-consumption tax for online gambling and compel operators to contribute to the Horserace Betting Levy will receive ...
Schleswig-Holstein to issue six more German licences
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The government in the breakaway German state of Schleswig Holstein has admitted it is powerless to prevent the issue of more online gambling licences before its parliament reconvenes ...
UK to deny tax break to gambling game developers
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The UK government is looking to exclude UK-based online gambling game developers from its creative sector tax relief scheme next year.
HM Government plans for corporation tax relief ...
Microgaming cancels 5050Poker contract
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Microgaming has terminated its contract with licensee 5050Poker for “non-payment of monies”.
The announcement by the owner of the Microgaming Poker Network (MPN) follows 5050 last ...
Playtech confirms September iPoker split
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Playtech has confirmed its iPoker network will be split into two separate player pools from September.
According to a communication with licensees on the iPoker network late last week, ...
Stan James owners face tax probe over Gibraltar move
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The family owners of bookmaker Stan James are battling to prevent the UK treating profit from the company’s telebetting arm as if it was their personal income, following the offshore ...
