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Apply to the Gambling Commission for a personal gambling licence or a gambling operating licence if you run or manage a gambling business. The Gambling Commission regulates arcades, betting, bingo, casinos, gaming machine providers, gambling software providers, lottery operators, external...
How Gaming Duty is charged, and who has to pay.
Find out how to apply VAT to betting, gaming, bingo, lotteries and machine games.
Minister for Gambling Baroness Twycross's speech to the Betting and Gaming Council Annual General Meeting 2025
Guidance and forms covering gambling duties. Including, Bingo, Gaming, Lottery and Machine Games Duty, general betting duty and payments.
Find out if you have to pay, when and how to register, the rates, how to fill in returns and make payments.
Find out if you should pay Gaming Duty, how to register and how to pay.
Form Gambling - Application for fee remission for companies
Fraudster used company money to fund casino gambling over several years
How to appeal to an independent tribunal if you disagree with a Gambling Commission decision about a personal or operating gambling licence.
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