Breaking with convention today people – instead of publishing two reviews, as we normally do every otherday, I’m writing another bingo tax update because he industry is seriously under threat. Today we learned that that the government had refused to alter the bingo tax from 22% and bring it back in line with all other gambling establishments at 15%. They are killing the industry and discriminating against those that love to play bingo.
In all honesty, all bingo halls and venues will really struggle to survive this latest blow. It is blatantly obvious that this will put people out of jobs and cut tax revenue in a major way but Parliament obviously does not care. The question is whether boycotts will affect online bingo or not. Only time will tell.