The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has approved a 55 per cent increase in the license fees charged to gambling operators and suppliers licensed in Great Britain.
The DCMS held a consultation on license fees between January 29 and March 26 this year. It said that more revenue was needed for the British regulator, the Gambling Commission, to cover increased operating costs.
This was necessary to allow the regulator to better to tackle three key challenges; increased technological development, the size of many gambling businesses, and the threat of unlicensed operators.
The consultation proposed raising fees for annual remote operating licenses by 55 per cent from 1 October 2021. It also proposed increasing the fee for new license applications by 60 per cent and simplifying the fees system by removing the discount for combined land-based and online licenses.
Fees for non-remote operating licenses would increase by 15 per cent from April 2020. There has been a delay in that increase that was proposed to avoid adding a higher load while land-based operations are still recovering from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The DCMS has now indicated that the government plans to go ahead and implement all of the changes proposed in the consultation.
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