Reports BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA MARKET
In 2013 Bosnia and Herzegovina unsuccessfully tried to ban players from accessing foreign online sites. With technical challenges and public outcry this was lifted after severe public pressure. Today there are many sites which accept Bosnian players including the major players.
companies with between 1,140 and 1,500 shops. Lutrija BiH also runs sports betting alongside other big companies such as Williams and Premier Betting.
In the Republika Srpska betting companies have to pay a tax administration fee of €500 fixed fee for each betting shop.
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Players pay no tax on wins under KM100 (€50) despite calls in the past to change this. In 2016 the Federation suggested a proposal for a law to introduce 10 per cent tax on wins under KM100 in addition to the 10 per cent for winnings of KM100 and over plus five per cent on the handle.
Te law was blocked by the Croats. Betting shops are mostly controlled by Croats who didn’t want to introduce any additional taxes into betting shops.
Te purpose would have been to increase budget revenues. Between January and April 2016 the land based betting sector contributed KM10.8m to the Federal government in taxes. Te state says the tax on winnings would have brought in around €23m each year.
Gambling revenues in 2014 reached almost KM17m. At that time:
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14 operators of betting games were registered with 634 betting shops with revenues of KM7m.
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20 registered gambling operators with operated 327 slot clubs and 3,695 slots. Slot revenues amounted to KM4.3m.
Tere were seven online gaming operators with revenues of KM1m.
Lottery games amounted to KM2.9m and electronic lottery games KM1.2m.
Gambling revenues in 2016 reached just over KM22.5m. Of this amount:
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Tere were 15 operators of betting games with 897 sites for sports betting. Income from betting amounted to KM9.7m an 11.7 per cent increase compared to 2015 of KM8.7m.
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Electronic games operations amounted to KM2.6m which was 29 per cent higher than the previous year and represents the highest growth.
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Online games of chance saw an income of KM1.5m.
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Lottery games via the Lottery of the Republika of Srpska saw KM481,722 revenues.
Meanwhile there were talks in 2017 for new gaming act amendments and at last year’s ‘European Organisation for Gaming Law conference on Taxation in the European Gaming Industry’ several issues were discussed with the Bosnia government and the following recommendations were made:
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To carry out an economic analysis of the market looking at tax regimes on payments, payouts etc.
To establish a special regulatory body within the government to look at licensing and control.
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To join a taxation model that is compatible with Western Europe.
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Avoid tax systems which burden the operators of games of chance
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Introduce identical tax on all kinds of games of chance without making a difference between lottery and betting games, slots and casinos for example with equal conditions.
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