Tag: budget

Snooze to lose

Snooze to lose

I quite like novelty bets as they are difficult to price, but I missed this one yesterday. In hindsight an opportunity missed!

https://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/

Ken Clarke netted a punter a decent return at 16/1 by officially / unofficially falling asleep during the budget speech yesterday. Some of these other more esoteric bets didn’t come in.

24/03/2011 | By More
Online betting tax imposed

Online betting tax imposed

Stark headline for a lot in this sector, but in the latest austerity budget in Ireland there were proposals to level out the playing field by introducing a new tax on phone and Internet gambling. As always, details are a bit sketchy at the moment but shops have been taxed for sometime but other channels not, so this is addressing that discrepancy.

Quite how it will work and be enforced is difficult to see at the moment, but it will …

08/12/2010 | By More
Budget hit for gamblers

Budget hit for gamblers

Bingo club owners amongst other operates in the UK were miffed yesterday when the budget lumped more tax on an already highly taxed sector. It’s likely the net tax increase was put in the budget because most of the electorate will not be directly aware of the increases.

Full story here: –

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/budget/5202372/Gambling-companies-hit-out-at-vindictive-tax-rises-in-Budget-2009.html

23/04/2009 | By More
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