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Gestha urges Spain to restore €2,500 lottery prize tax exemption

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Spanish tax officials’ association Gestha called for the return of a €2,500 tax-exempt threshold for prizes from SELAE, ONCE and Cruz Roja lotteries. It also urged stronger tax and anti-money-laundering investigations into lottery winnings paid to companies and non-residents, arguing that the current treatment merits review.

The proposals could change lottery prize taxation and scrutiny of winnings paid to organisations and non-residents.

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Cejuego asks Spain’s Consumer Ministry to investigate underage play claims against ONCE and SELAE

Cejuego said it had reported ONCE and Spain’s state lottery operator, SELAE, to the Ministry of Consumer Affairs over claims that minors and self-excluded people could gamble with them. Cejuego director general Alejandro Landaluce called for the ministry to make checks; the claims are allegations, not findings described in the report. The association also argued that public and private operators should face equivalent consumer-protection and advertising rules.

Spain's Cejuego has asked the Ministry of Consumer Affairs to carry out checks on ONCE and SELAE over claims that the public operators allow minors and people on self-exclusion registers to gamble, the association's director general said. Alejandro Landaluce, Cejuego's director general, said the association had raised the matter with the ministry and that the claims concern both ONCE's scratchcards and Loterías. The allegations are not findings, and the report describes no decision by the ministry or by the DGOJ.

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