Brazil’s Senate approved PLP 128/2025, which raises betting companies’ contribution rate from 12% to 13% in 2026, 14% in 2027 and 15% in 2028. The bill also assigns half of the additional revenue to social security and half to health measures, and now awaits presidential sanction.
The bill sets out a staged increase in betting companies’ tax burden and allocates the additional revenue between social security and health.
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The Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) urged the UK government to rule out further tax increases, citing job cuts announced by bet365. The group said higher taxes risk reducing jobs and investment and could benefit the unregulated market. It said bet365 is among Stoke-on-Trent’s largest employers and that hundreds of job losses would affect the local economy.
Blask data showed offshore brands gained share in Latvia, the Netherlands, the UK and Croatia during the first half of 2026, while licensed-market demand weakened. The report linked the comparisons to tax increases in Latvia, the Netherlands and the UK, and advertising restrictions in Croatia; it gave different market figures for each country.
Argentina’s tax authority, ARCA, collected revenue from taxes on legal online betting and gaming during the first half of 2026, according to figures cited in the report. Analytica said the amount was almost 77% of the total collected in 2025 and represented a 35.5% real year-on-year increase; June receipts reached ARS 13,656 million.
Bulgaria’s deputy finance minister Lyudmila Petkova rejected wider gambling advertising restrictions and higher taxes. She argued at a budget meeting that isolated changes could drive more players towards the illegal market.
The Netherlands' gambling tax increases generated just €2m in additional revenue in 2025 against a predicted €108m, reported by iGaming Business' Right to the Source podcast. The 2026 estimate is €57m versus a €216m forecast. The rate rose from 30.5% to 34.2% in January 2025 and to 37.8% in January 2026.