Ghanaian Vice President and New Patriotic Party leader Mahamudu Bawumia said on 7 February 2024 that he would abolish taxes on gambling if elected president. He made the pledge during a lecture in Accra, alongside promises concerning electronic transactions and emissions taxes.
The pledge could change gambling tax treatment if Bawumia becomes president and fulfils it.
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An opinion column by EJUVA vice-president Julián Pérez argues that legal limits on business margins constrain bingo operators’ viability. Pérez cites a progressive electronic-bingo tax scale of 10%, 10%, 15% and 25%, and a 1% rate on the first €400,000 in sales, while saying the wider tax system needs further reform.
EJUVA vice-president Julián Pérez called for bingo tax reform in an opinion column, arguing that legal limits on business margins restrict operators’ viability.
SAPAR president Sergio D’Angelo called for tax measures to be spread across Italy’s gambling market at a Rome summit on 3 November 2026. He cited about €193bn in total wagers and around €30bn for amusement machines, saying the segment generated more than half of the state’s €11bn in gambling revenue. D’Angelo argued that a one-percentage-point tax increase equalled 10% of operators’ available revenue.
Sergio D’Angelo, president of SAPAR, spoke at the SiGMA Central Europe Summit in Rome. He asked that any tax measures be spread across the whole gambling market rather than placing further burdens on a single segment. D’Angelo said attention returns to amusement machines whenever the state needs to raise money.
Pascal Chevremont, the incoming president of France's gambling regulator, the ANJ, told a National Assembly committee he would strengthen state oversight of betting and gaming and intensify action against illegal operators. He succeeds Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin and will lead the regulator for six years; the appointment's start date was not stated.
Emilia-Romagna will allocate all funds it may receive from a proposed share of gaming-tax revenue to preventing and treating gambling disorder, regional undersecretary Manuela Rontini said. She also said the regional government opposes a proposed revision of restrictions on gambling venues and will defend its current law.
Jason Lane, chief executive of the Jersey Gambling Commission, was elected vice-president of the International Association of Gaming Regulators on 20 October 2020, the commission said. The role lasts one year, after which he is due to become president for a year.