The Gibraltar Betting and Gaming Association (GBGA) has followed through with its threats and written to the UK Government and Gambling Commission placing them on notice of a claim for judicial review, giving them 14 days in which to respond. The GBGA, which represents Gibraltar-based online gambling operators, has instructed the law firm Olswang to write to the Secretary of …
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Is the time ripe for a Judicial Review of the Point of Consumption Tax?
David Clifton, director at Clifton Davies Consultancy Limited and speaker at SBC’s Betting on Football Conference, asks whether the time has arrived for a Judicial Review of the looming remote gambling changes? Now that Royal Assent in respect of the Gambling (Licensing & Advertising) Bill is looming and the 15% point of consumption tax has been confirmed in the Chancellor’s Budget …
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Online gaming operator 32Red has reacted with bemusement over the ‘sharp fall’ in its share price in recent weeks on the back of another year of record revenues. The operator suggests that it has suffered because other gambling firms have also seen their shares drop, but that was as a result of the UK Budget imposing greater taxes on retail …
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