More oversight for the gambling industry could be coming to Pennsylvania, this time focused on skill games.
A proposed regulation would centralize a monitoring and control system and create a tax structure that could bring in hundreds of millions of dollars to state coffers, advocates say.
Skill games look like slot machines, but are games of skill where gamblers can affect the outcome, as opposed to games of chance like slot machines. They aren’t subject to the commonwealth’s gambling law nor taxes.
“There’s obviously a demand for this type of entertainment,” Sen. Gene Yaw, R-Williamsport, said in a statement. “There’s a lot of these machines out there, somewhere between 20,000 to 70,000, and they’re not being taxed. Why not tax them?”
