Uruguay Forgot to Collect Gambling Taxes for 67 Years
Key Takeaways
  • Politician Aníbal Gloodtdofsky proposes to update the law to collect the last five years of back taxes and use the proceeds to fund expensive medicines.
  • Regulation of online gaming laws also recently proposed.

Uruguayan politician Aníbal Gloodtdofsky is incensed that a 10% gambling tax on casinos dating from 1946 has been forgotten, and taxes have gone uncollected.