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Swedish Government Asks for Taxes

Multipoker.com is a prominent internet poker site operating for the European and Scandinavian market. Just two years ago, PartyGaming, a prominent online casino turnkey provider purchased Multipoker from EPR Investments. And though PartyGaming has operated the site according to all local laws and legislation, the Swedish government is now alleging that the Multipoker online casinos site was primarily operated within Sweden while EPR Investments owned the site, yet EPR illegally fronted the site out of the British Virgin Islands in a tax evasion scheme that the Swedish government recently began to investigate.

Fortunately for the online casinos turnkey provider PartyGaming, the Swedish officials are not targeting the Multipoker site – but rather focusing the investigation on EPR Investments and how the company operated the Multipoker site prior to the 2005 sale to PartyGaming. And though many are surprised by the announcement about the successful Multipoker.com site, the EPR investigation is just one of many recent Swedish investigations into online casino gambling operations within the country.

Over the last several months Swedish officials have sent questionnaires to various online casino sites with any sort of operations based in Sweden. The Swedish government is looking to strongly enforce tax related legislation that regulates online casino gambling within the country. Other companies with operations located in Macau and other locations all completed the Swedish questionnaire and affirmed that the actual internet gambling sites are not run out of Sweden.

EPR Investments though allegedly owes the Swedish government Euro 4.5 million in unpaid taxes. The Swedish government claims that EPR primary operations for Multipoker were in fact in Sweden although the company claimed at the time that the site was primarily operated out of the British Virgin Islands. A large portion of the tax money the government is claiming concerns taxing on the Euro $14.5 million dollar online casino site sale to PartyGaming.