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Controversy in the Face of Money

The Dutch government has just shown a pretty ambiguous stance on the offshore online casino gambling situation. The Netherlands is one of the controversial countries that is blocking foreign internet gambling companies in an effort to sustain state monopolies and “protect” Dutch gamblers from the ills associated with internet gambling. The Dutch government has been in heated negotiations with the European Commission because of the government’s refusal to comply with requests for an open and free internet gambling market that welcomes competition from offshore online casinos. A hypocritical decision that has many scratching their heads is the ruling that a Dutch gambler who hit a jackpot of $4.3 million will be allowed to keep her winnings as long as she pays out a portion of the jackpot to the Dutch tax authorities – not a decision that upholds the foreign internet ban very thoroughly.

The 33-year old Dutch gambler won a Euro $4.3 million jackpot form Unibet just this month but had to spend agonizing weeks while the government contemplated allowing her to keep the winnings. The Netherlands has really tried to take a strong stance against the online casinos, but this new situation indicates that the officials actually have a more fluctuating stance once actually faced with the huge tax revenues available from actual internet gambling winnings.

The winner was very candid about where the money is going – she does acknowledge that a substaintial portion of the win is going to go to the Dutch government. She notes, "About $1.1 million euros will go to the taxman, with the rest I want to make my family happy.” The whole of the online casino gambling industry was a bit surprised that the Dutch government would choose to enforce such hypocritical gambling policies.