The UK's Department for Culture, Media and Sport is consulting on proposals to alter the way in which remote gambling is regulated.
It has potentially far reaching and drastic implications for operators targeting the UK market from offshore and the DCMS is urging operators to respond to the consultation before the deadline of June 18.
As the UK government grapples with an enormous budget deficit, there is a very real danger that it will, if it has not done do so already, identify potential gambling tax revenues as the solution to at least some of its problems.
From a political perspective, there is no downside to increasing gambling taxes on overseas operators and “levelling the playing field” for UK operators, while citing social responsibility and consumer protection.
