BCN World to Double Gaming Tax Income EMEA
Der brasilianische Übergangspräsident Michel Temer sucht nach Möglichkeiten, Onlinewetten und Sofortlotterien zu legalisieren und ausländische Unternehmen zur Zusamme- narbeit mit der CAIXA für den Betrieb von Sportwetten zuzulassen. Die Privatisierung der Sofortlotterieangebote wäre ein logischer weit- erer Schritt, da die Regierung in Bezug auf das Glücksspiel eine zunehmend liberale Haltung einnimmt.
Das Abgeordnetenhaus in der im Nordwesten Argentiniens gelegenen Provinz Jujuy hat ein neues Gesetz verabschiedet, durch das eine grundlegende Überprüfung der unter der Vorgängerregierung erteilten Glücksspielverträge veranlasst wird.
Die Regierung von Mendoza in Argentinien hat beschlossen, die Zulassung von mindestens drei Spielbanken in der Provinz nicht zu verlängern, da sie die von der Glücksspielaufsicht formulierten Ziele der Anziehung von Touristen und der Erzeugung von Einnahmen nicht erfüllen.
Gemäß dem jüngsten Entwurf für ein brasilianisches Glücksspielgesetz, der im Unter- haus des Abgeordnetenhauses diskutiert wird, könnten die Stadien des Landes zur Unterbringung von Bingohallen und Spielbanken zugelassen werden. Die neuen Bestimmungen würden das Glückspiel in Stadien mit einem Fas- sungsvermögen von 15.000 Zuschauern erlauben.
Sun Dreams kündigen Investitionen inHöhe von 250 Mio. USDollar auf dem peruanischen Markt an. Die Mittel sind zur Verbesserung der Betriebe in Peru gedacht und werden als Kapital- spritze für ein neues Kasino im Las Vegas-Stil in der Landeshauptstadt Lima verwendet. Der Hauptgeschäftsführer von Dreams in Peru, Martín Dávila, betont, dass das neue Kasino etwas auf dem örtlichen Markt nie Dagewesenes zu bieten haben wird.
Playtech hat seine Stellung auf dem Sportwettenmarkt durch die Übernahme des Software-Anbieters Best Gaming Technology für umgerechnet 138 Mio. Euro (152,6 Mio. USD) gestärkt. Durch die Übernahme wird Playtech zu einem Großanbieter von Automaten für Sportwetten, der seine starke Position bei den Spielautomaten im Kasinostil vervollständigt.
Century Casinos haben einen Kaufvertrag zur Übernahme des Apex Casino in dem Vorort Edmonton, Alberta von St. Albert unterzeichnet.
Macau Legend hat einen unverbindlichen Vorvertrag bezüglich der Übernahme eines Anteils an einer Spielbank in dem beliebten Touristenreiseziel der Halbinsel Tróia sowie der gemeinsamen Erschließung eines neuen integri- erten Ferienortes in der nahegelegenen Küstenstadt Setúbal, etwa eine Stunde Fahrzeit von der Hauptstadt Lissabon abgeschlossen.
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After pronouncing the oversized and unrealistic project ‘dead and buried,’ it’s now long live the new BCN World according to the Catalan government
Te Catalan government is already relishing the taxation prospects for the BCN World casino resort, despite significantly reducing the scale of the development
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Vice President of Catalonia, Oriol Junqueras, (pictured) has told parliament that casino generated revenue will double once the new version of BCN World is up and running.
Gaming generated tax revenue will increase from €22.5m to €45m despite the fact that BNC World will now only be allowed to house one to two casinos. Te leisure complex will also generate an additional €200m for the local, regional and state governments via other taxes he said.
Currently there are four casinos in Catalonia and one or two more large scale casinos will be part of the newly established Tourist and Recreation Complex (CRT) as the project in Vila- seca as Salou is now provisionally known. Both Melco and Hard Rock are competing to operate a casino each while the Peralada Group in partnership with the Genting Group are also competing to be the sole operator and would run a single large scale casino in the resort.
While the casino space will be reduced the tax rate will remain the same as originally agreed. Under new rules passed in 2014, the Catalan Parliament ruled that casinos in Catalonia would pay 10 per cent on their revenues from
gambling once the casinos are up and running. Despite the reduction in tax, Junqueras said that according to “conservative estimates” gaming tax income in the region would double.
Junqueras also said that while he personally was not in favour of the reduction in taxes on gaming the region could not afford to lose out investments worth between €2bn and €2.5bn in the new project. “Te project that we are pushing for today is neither BCN nor Eurovegas World. Tat oversized or unrealistic vision is dead and buried,” he said. Te Minister promised that by the end of the year that the government would approve the urban master plan in order to define the zoning of the new project, and the public tender for the licenses would be held in February and March and that the winners would be announced before the summer of 2017.
In all the project has shrunk from a million square meters to 750,000 (a 25 per cent reduction). Of this amount 30,000 square meters will be destined for casinos which will make up at most 4 per cent of the total space while the remaining 96 per cent will be allocated for hotels, convention centres and other commercial uses.
Holland Dutch Lower House green lights online bill
Following two years of debate the Dutch Lower House has approved the country’s Remote Gaming Bill which could see a regulated online gambling market by Q3 of 2017.
It is widely expected that the Senate will also approve the decision of the Dutch Lower house after the summer break. In term of the legislation there will be a 29 per cent tax imposed both land based and online gambling revenues. In addition there will also be a further 1.5 per cent tax which will be used to fund the regulatory body (KSA) and another 0.5 per cent will go to finance problem gambling programmes.
Te Dutch Remote Gaming Bill was passed only after a number of amendments were approved including one that will prohibit lotteries and land-based casino operators from utilising existing player databases in order to
promote their online offerings. A second is to require brick-and- mortar casinos to erect physical entry and player identification barriers as well as contribute to a problem gambling fund.
Te opening of the regulated market is actually expected January 1, 2018, due to the lengthy implementation process. In fact, nothing is expected to change the coming months.
Te problem is not just the forthcoming upper chamber ruling, but also the execution of decrees and activation of the licensing process to accept and welcomed operators to the market, which will be executed by the Dutch Gaming Authority (KSA). Around a 100 operators have shown interest in acquiring a Dutch license, however, it’s expected that only 50 licenses will be made available.
Russia
Kiron Interactive has signed an agreement to distribute its virtual products via Blue Ocean Gaming. Te deal will see the full suite of Kiron’s popular games made available to the casino platform’s customers across Russia, the CIS, and Latin America. Te agreement will also provide introductions for Blue Ocean to Kiron’s network of clients across the African region.
Steven Spartinos, co-CEO of Kiron, said the collaboration reflected a growing interest in virtual games among casino operators and their players around the world.
He added: “We’re delighted to have teamed up with Blue Ocean, whose excellent casino platform will help us reach new audiences in new territories.”
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