Grainne Hurst, CEO of the Betting and Gaming Council (BGC), has cautioned against the government’s planned single taxation regime.
[On] 28 April, the government launched consultations on an updated ‘single online gambling duty’, running for 12 weeks through 21 July. The new tax treatment looks to revise existing remote gambling duties given the rise in customer engagement with online gambling and its annual generated GGY of £6.9bn.
This would in turn create a single Remote Betting and Gaming Duty (RBGD) by merging the three current tax categories of Remote Gaming Duty, General Betting Duty, and Pool Betting Duty.
A similar proposal that sought to increase gambling taxes was initially shot down from the 2024 Autumn Budget by Chancellor Rachel Reeves.
