South Africa's Minister of Finance, Trevor Manuel, this week released for public comment a bill that will tax Internet gambling. The bill provides for a special tax on "interactive gambling" which was earlier regulated in the National Gambling Amendment Bill approved by Parliament in May 2008.
The tax will be imposed on operators with an interactive gambling website in South Africa, and will fall on gross gambling revenue.
The initial National Gambling Act which this year’s bill amended did not provide for legalised interactive gambling in South Africa, the Minister explained. The amendment bill therefore allows for this form of gambling in South Africa in order to ensure regulatory oversight of the pastime, and to prevent it remaining in the hands of offshore jurisdictions, with little or no protection for local consumers.
Saturday, 15 November 2008
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