New Danish Online Casino Regs
The online casino gambling industry in Denmark is getting a massive overhaul
this year as the country attempts to fall into better alignment with the
European Commission’s mandates regarding a free and open gambling industry.
Denmark is one of the countries that has long operated internet gambling
monopolies and forced legal foreign online casinos out of the Danish market. To
rectify those past actions Denmark announced a new set of regulations that
actually caused huge levels of turmoil between the land gambling companies and
the internet gambling sites because the proposed new Danish regulations would be
giving foreign internet gambling sites an enormous tax advantage over the land
gambling venues.
Denmark submitted the new gambling legislation to the European Commission for
approval but was instead told to rethink the regulations and their effect on the
nation’s land gambling industry. Denmark’s first round of regulations planned to
tax the land gambling industry a whopping 45 to 75 percent while the online
casinos and all forms of internet gambling would only pay 20 percent in taxes.
The land gambling venues loudly objected to these proposed regulations and noted
that it was almost like the Danish government was rewarding these gaming sites
for their past history of violating Danish law and operating illegally in the
Danish market.
At the request of the European Commission Demark has announced the government
will take a second look at the land and online casino gambling regulations and
make an effort to even out the tax burden between the land and internet gaming
sites. |