Macau’s Financial Services Bureau reported gaming tax revenue of MOP34.87bn for January to April 2026, up 16.8% year on year. April collections totalled MOP9.07bn, 18.7% higher than a year earlier; gaming taxes made up around 84% of government revenue in the four-month period.
The figures show gaming taxes supplied most of Macau’s government revenue in the first four months of 2026.
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Macau collected MOP25.80 billion in gaming tax revenue in Q1 2026, up 15.9% year on year, according to Financial Services Bureau data. Gaming taxes made up about 89.8% of the government’s MOP28.73 billion in current revenue for the quarter. Casino gross gaming revenue reached MOP65.87 billion, an increase of 14.3%.
Brazil's Federal Revenue Service collected BRL4.586bn ($886.2m) in betting taxes between January and April 2026, almost double the BRL2.283bn in the same period of 2025, according to figures cited in an iGaming Business article by Alex W. Pariente. The revenue came from 87 licensed operators, up from 49 at the start of the market's first full year, while independent estimates cited in the report put illegal betting at 41% to 51% of total activity.
Reportedly, Brazil's federal government collected R$11.116bn in tax from betting operations between January and September 2026. The figure covers federal revenue from online betting over the nine-month period.
Brazil collected R$8.75bn in gambling and betting taxes between January and July 2026, according to Receita Federal figures. Receipts increased 76.86% against the same period in 2025. The total includes betting, Caixa lotteries and associated federal taxes.
Brazil’s Federal Revenue Service reported that online betting companies paid about R$5.8bn in taxes between January and May 2026. The total was 85% above the R$3.1bn collected in the same period a year earlier; May receipts were R$1.3bn, down from R$1.4bn in May 2025.