Consultation outcome

Tax Treatment of Remote Gambling

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HM Treasury
Published
28 April 2025
Last updated
26 November 2025 — See all updates
This consultation has concluded

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The Tax Treatment of Remote Gambling: Summary of Responses and Government Response

Ref: ISBN 978-1-917638-90-6

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Detail of outcome

The government ran a consultation on the Tax Treatment of Remote Gambling between April 2025 to July 2025 and received 143 responses. The consultation sought views on the scope of the proposed new tax, covering all remote betting and gaming activities (such as online casinos, bingo, slots, sports betting, and horserace betting).

After consulting with stakeholders, we have listened to the clear message that remote betting and remote gaming have distinct characteristics and levels of harm associated with them. Recognising this, we will not introduce a new single remote gaming and betting duty. Instead, we will continue to reflect these differences by maintaining different rates for remote gaming and remote betting:

  • Remote gaming: From April 2026 Remote Gaming Duty will increase from 21% to 40%.
  • Remote betting: From April 2027 a new Remote Betting Rate within General Betting Duty set at 25% will be introduced. Remote UK horseracing bets will not be subject to the new rate and will remain taxed at 15%.
  • We will support bingo halls by abolishing Bingo Duty from April 2026.
  • We are not making any changes to any of the other gambling duties.

Original consultation

Summary

This consultation proposes a new, single remote (e.g. online) gambling duty. Remote operators would no longer have to comply with up to three separate taxes.

This consultation ran from
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Consultation description

This consultation invites views on a new single remote gambling duty. The consultation will run for 12 weeks and will close at midnight on 21 July 2025 Responses can be submitted on the online form.  

This email address can be used to submit responses if you have accessibility requirements: remotegambling.consultation@hmrc.gov.uk.

Documents

The Tax Treatment of Remote Gambling Consultation (PDF)

Ref: ISBN 978-1-917638-01-2

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Published 28 April 2025
Last updated 26 November 2025 show all updates

  1. Summary of Response added.

  2. Changes have been made to pages 5, 9 and 10 and the appendix. The originally published version presented the growth in the gambling industry between 2014/15 and 2023/24. However, the Gambling Commission's industry statistics for 2014/15 are not directly comparable with subsequent years because they do not include revenue generated by operators based outside the UK. These figures have been amended to compare 2015/16 to 2023/24, which presents a more meaningful comparison. On page 5, the five year growth rate has been corrected from 20% to 30%, amending a calculation error. The Tax Treatment of Remote Gambling Consultation accessible version added.

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