Through an articulated work between the Government, guilds and operators, Decree 808 of 2020 was promoted, which seeks to reduce the serious economic impact caused by the coronavirus pandemic in sales of the traditional lottery game or tickets.
The traditional lottery or ticket operators and the permanent betting concession operators may offer the public incentives with immediate prize (scratch and win) collection in money and / or kind, which may be marketed independently of the traditional lottery or ticket game or permanent bets.
However, this occurs to be not only an opportunity to local or already based operators, but foreign ones. Specially the ones in north America, as they have plenty experience among the years, they have had already this system implemented.
Other of the incentives that can attract foreign operators to play in this field, is that the new business model is an autonomous form of gambling that is not part of the lottery sale, so it will not be subject to the foreign lottery tax. Likewise, another incentive is that the product will be excluded from the application of Value Added Tax (VAT).
In this way, the exploitation rights of the immediate prize incentives will be 12% of the gross income, and the administration expenses will be 2.5% of the Exploitation Rights. The return to the public of these incentives will be at least 58% of gross income.
When these immediate prize incentives are operated online, they will comply with the conditions and regulations applied to innovative games. Authorizing new game operators to offer this new modality.
In addition, lotteries may conduct two draws a year during 2020 and 2021, for each associate in accordance with current regulations, without exceeding one draw per month.
During 2020 and 2021, the operation of bingos with remote presence of the players and sale of cards at home, at points of sale and authorized gambling halls will also be allowed.
For the latter, the mayors, planning secretariats and urban curators who have said faculty, can issue the concept of land use for the authorization of the premises in accordance with the Land Use Plan (LUP)
In this way, the aim is to avoid crowds in authorized gambling halls, and to be a measure that creates an opportunity to reactivate the operation of localized games.
On the other hand, the decree indicates that, due to the need to extend the isolation, new game modalities will be implemented that do not require the physical permanence of the gamblers.
"Modernization and diversification of incentives for territorial games, through the inclusion of a modality in money and / or species with immediate prize collection".
To include immediate prize games within the offer of internet-operated games, which require player registration and have reward levels of over 83%.
