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What Will Estonia Market Look Like

The Estonian government made a controversial announcement this month that has baffled the European Commission, angered some online casinos, but generally been met with enthusiasm by other gambling groups. The Estonian government announced a complete reversal on previous national gambling policies that forbid internet gambling servers to operate out of the country. That ban has not been reversed and any companies wanting access to Estonian gamblers have to base their servers in the countries. This policy contravenes some of the free trade laws established by the European Union between EU member-states, which has the Commission on edge.

And the online casinos that do not have servers in the Estonian market are angered by the requirement. But software development companies are on the up and up because they can still easily access the Estonian market through software licensing deals. The new online casino gambling industry in Estonian is designed to generate significant revenues for the state government through taxation on those companies basing their servers out of Estonia – a five percent tax on an online casino’s gross revenues is the leading plan at this point.

Concern is mounting for Estonians themselves though because the Estonian government plans to restrict the number of online casinos and poker gambling sites operating within the market. International poker gambling is huge in the country and Estonian poker players are worried they will no longer have access to the competitive professional online poker market – a concern that even has some Estonians considering leaving their country to find work in other EU countries like Finland!