KPMG Report Recommends Reductions in Proposed UK Online Gambling Tax

The UK’s planned 15% tax rate puts the government’s fiscal and social objectives in jeopardy, according to a report commissioned by the RGA.

The Remote Gaming Association (RGA) has published a summary of a KPMG report which recommends the UK adopt a 10% gambling tax rather than the currently planned 15%.

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Jocelyn Wood, Editor Joss is a graduate in English from the University of Birmingham and has a Master’s Degree in Organisational Development from the University of Manchester. His career path has taken him from the British Army, through business & finance to seven years as a successful professional poker player. His experience of the European Union, law, accounting, finance, regulation and online poker provide the basis for his insights in the PRO specialist categories of Industry and Law & Regulation. As CEO he steered his own company through full Financial Services Authority regulation, and was asked by Morgan Stanley to take their UK mortgage business through the same process. Although British, he lives in Arequipa, Peru, set high in the mountains and surrounded by volcanoes. He is married to a Peruvian and has three children.

Article published on September 17, 2013.

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