Chile’s SCJ said casinos contributed CLP104.214bn in taxes in 2025, down 4.7% in real terms from 2024. Gross gaming revenue across all casinos reached almost CLP633bn, while visits to casinos regulated under Law 19.995 fell 7.2%.
The data indicate lower casino activity but continued tax contributions and fiscal transfers in Chile.
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Deputy Alejandro Riquelme proposed blocking card payments and bank transfers to unauthorised online betting platforms in Chile, reportedly. He called for the Superintendencia de Casinos de Juego to coordinate with the Comisión para el Mercado Financiero and banks; the proposal comes as an online betting bill remains in its second constitutional stage in the Senate.
Alejandro Riquelme, a deputy and member of the Economy Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, proposed blocking credit card payments and bank transfers to online betting platforms in Chile. The report states that this is a proposal made in the legislative debate and not a measure whose implementation has been announced.
Marina del Sol president Paula Rojas Puga said weaker activity at Chilean casinos has reduced employment and municipal contributions. She said direct employment at the company’s Talcahuano casino fell 30%; visits across the country’s 22 casinos were down 12.1% year on year from January to August 2026, according to figures she cited from the Superintendencia de Casinos de Juego.
Direct employment at Marina del Sol's casino in Talcahuano fell 30% as the operator adjusted to lower activity across Chile's casino sector, the company's board chair, Paula Rojas Puga, said. The effect on indirect employment was even larger, she said. The decline reaches all four of Marina del Sol's casinos — in Talcahuano, Calama, Chillán and Osorno — with differing effects according to each venue's size.
Chile's telecoms subsecretary Romina Garrido told a congressional economy committee that Subtel has received three protection appeals, one lawsuit and six administrative challenges against blocks on online betting sites. The SCJ said 174 illegal sites have been blocked since 19 August, while Garrido said platforms rapidly switch to new domains to evade the order.
Chile's telecoms subsecretary Romina Garrido told a congressional economy committee that Subtel has received three protection appeals, one lawsuit and six administrative challenges against blocks on online betting sites. The committee called the authorities to establish how far a Supreme Court ruling has been complied with. The Superintendencia de Casinos de Juego (SCJ) said 174 illegal sites have been blocked since 19 August. The SCJ said it sent the list to Subtel and to Wom, Entel, Claro, Movistar, VTR and GTD, the country's six largest internet providers.
Chile’s Superintendencia de Casinos de Juego defended court-ordered blocks on online betting sites in submissions to the courts. Latamwin challenged the measures, while Epicbet disputed the scope of the blocking orders and asked the Supreme Court to review the admissibility of its appeal after a first-instance rejection. Subtel said it carries out court orders and does not decide which internet content should be blocked.
Chile's Superintendencia de Casinos de Juego (SCJ) defended court-ordered blocks on online betting sites in submissions to the courts. The blocks were ordered against dozens of domains linked to platforms operating without authorisation in Chile, with internet providers instructed to apply DNS blocking. Latamwin, owned by W&C N.V., filed a recurso de protección against the SCJ and the Subsecretaría de Telecomunicaciones (Subtel). Epicbet, operated by Overcooked Limitada, challenged the scope of the blocking orders and asked the Supreme Court to review the admissibility of its appeal after the Corte de Apelaciones rejected its first-instance filing.
The Talca Court of Appeals rejected a protection appeal seeking to halt construction of the new Casino Dreams in Chile’s Maule region, ruling that the municipal building permit was not illegal. The court said the regional environmental authority had found the project did not require assessment under the environmental review system and would not affect the wetland; Dreams plans to submit final documents to the Superintendence of Casinos of Gaming in November before the review required to open.