South Africa’s Constitutional Court refuses appeals over gambling-tax treatment of freeplay
South Africa’s Constitutional Court refused leave to appeal in two cases over whether casino freeplay credits count as taxable revenue under Western and Eastern Cape gambling laws. The court said the disputes concerned interpretation of provincial statutes and did not raise constitutional issues or matters of wider public importance. Each party was ordered to pay the respondents’ costs, including the costs of two counsel.
The decisions leave the provincial-law tax disputes unresolved at the Constitutional Court level and include costs orders against the parties.