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Gaming Machines: Excise Duties

Question for Department for Culture, Media and Sport

UIN 9439, tabled on 16 October 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of increases in machine gaming duty on high streets.

Answered on

5 November 2024

The government will consult next year on proposals to bring remote gambling (meaning gambling offered over the internet, telephone, TV and radio) into a single tax, rather than taxing it through a three-tax structure. This will aim to simplify, future-proof and close loopholes in the system.