By the end of 2021, 11 of the 21 land-based casinos had extended their concession to include online gambling which offered a total of 3,733 online casino games (3,197 slots and 536 table games). Two casinos (Casino Davos and Casino Zurich) offer poker games in cooperation with a foreign operator.
ONLINE CASINO TAXES 2019-2021 CASINO
Baden Bern
Davos
Interlaken Lucerne Meyrin
Pfaffikon Montreux Basel
Neuchatel Lugano TOTAL
TAXES 2019 CHF1.77m
-
CHF278,797 -
CHF3.13m -
CHF2.26m - - - -
CHF7.45m
gaming and additional offers. With a balanced regional distribution, they cover the market in the cities, regions and tourist and border areas. Since they started operating in 2002/2003 the casinos have paid taxes totalling CHF7.3bn of which CHF6.2bn has gone to the AVS and CHF1.05bn to the cantons where the Type B casinos are located.”
ONLINE CASINOS
By the end of 2021, 11 of the 21 land-based casinos had extended their concession to include online gambling which offered a total of 3,733 online casino games (3,197 slots and 536 table games). Two casinos (Casino Davos and Casino Zurich) offer poker games in cooperation with a foreign operator.
Te number of active online player accounts across all casinos at the end of 2021 was around 200,000 (130,000 by end 2020).
Revenues for the online gambling sector has been steadily increasing. In 2019, the four online casinos in operation saw revenues of CHF23.5m whilst in 2020 there were seven online casinos in operation with a GGR of CHF186.8m. Online gambling revenues last year reached CHF234m with 11 online casinos operational.
P48 WIRE / PULSE / INSIGHT / REPORTS
TAXES 2020 CHF15.54m
CHF237,977 CHF5.12m CHF4.32m CHF32.6m CHF63,586 CHF20.1m - - - -
CHF78m
TAXES 2021 CHF18.2m
CHF0.5m CHF9.5m CHF3.9m CHF35.7m CHF1.6m
CHF29.6m CHF0.005m CHF0.017m CHF0.3m CHF0.4m CHF99.6m
A total of six online gambling extension licences were granted in 2019 and the first four casinos to receive an extension in June 2019 were: Casinos Baden, Lucerne, Pfaffikon and Davos followed by Interlaken and Bern in November (launching in 2020).
Tree online extensions were granted in 2020 (Meyrin, Lugano and Neuchatel) and a further two in December 2021 (Basel and Montreux).
In 2019, only one casino offered ‘live’ table games, and this rose to five (out of seven online casinos) in 2020 whilst in November 2020 the CFMJ approved the first poker game.
Te online casino games offered are online slots and live table games. In order to hold poker games online the casino can collaborate with a foreign operator upon request. Each casino that plays online games must be equipped with a data recording system located in Switzerland.
Te online gambling partners currently operating in Switzerland include:
Te Gamanza Group which was incorporated in 2019 following an investment from Stadtcasino Baden for its online casino operation. Gamanza developed its GaminGenius Platform and CRM
and launched its first legal online casino in Switzerland via Casino Baden’s
jackpots.ch site. Te company has since gone on to sign five more long term deals with other land-based casino clients - Casino Neuchatel, Casino Bern, Casino Montreux, Casino Basel and Casino Meyrin. Last year, Gamanza was acquired fully by its investors and became part of the Stadtcasino Baden group of companies.
Playtech launched its casino and live casino into Switzerland with the Swiss Casino Group in 2019 via Casino Pfaffikon’s online site
myswisscasino.ch followed by its iPoker network a year later. Playtech later partnered with Casino Lugano to launch its
swiss4win.ch online site in March 2021.
PAF was chosen as technology partner by Grand
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