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Find out how to apply VAT to betting, gaming, bingo, lotteries and machine games.
How to pay General Betting, Pool Betting or Remote Gaming Duty, and how long it takes for your payment to reach HMRC.
Use this service to register to for General Betting Duty (GBD), Pool Betting Duty (PBD) or Remote Gaming Duty (RGD).
The Horserace Betting Levy Board (HBLB) is required to collect a statutory levy, known as the Horserace Betting Levy, from horseracing bookmakers and the Tote successor company which it then distributes for the improvement of horseracing and breeds of horses...
Operators of betting and gaming pools need to work out how the different gambling duties apply to amounts they take out of their pools.
Baroness Twycross' speech at GambleAware’s annual conference, where she set out the government’s work to strengthen protections against gambling harms.
How Gaming Duty is charged, and who has to pay.
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...
An independent CMA panel has decided Spreadex should sell Sporting Index after finding the deal harmed competition for licensed online sports spread betting services.
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