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Find out how to apply VAT to betting, gaming, bingo, lotteries and machine games.
Find out if you have to pay, when and how to register, the rates, how to fill in returns and make payments.
Find out about Machine Games Duty, how the duty is charged and who has to pay.
Find out when and how to pay your General Betting, Pool Betting or Remote Gaming Duty.
Use this service to register to for General Betting Duty (GBD), [Pool Betting Duty (PBD) or Remote Gaming Duty (RGD).
Operators of betting and gaming pools need to work out how the different gambling duties apply to amounts they take out of their pools.
How to register, make changes to your registration, view your account and submit returns online
Guidance and forms covering gambling duties. Including, Bingo, Gaming, Lottery and Machine Games Duty, general betting duty and payments.
An update from the government on industry-led measures to improve player protections with regards to loot boxes in video games.
How Gaming Duty is charged, and who has to pay.
Machine Games Duty (MGD): what you pay it on, how to register, filing your return and changing your details.
The Horserace Betting Levy Board (HBLB) is required to collect a statutory levy, known as the Horserace Betting Levy, from horseracing bookmakers and the Tote successor company which it then distributes for the improvement of horseracing and breeds of horses...
Find out the basic rules of VAT, how they apply to clubs and associations, and how to treat VAT on subscriptions and other payments.
This guidance is intended to support billing authorities in administering the 2024/25 Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Business Rates Relief Scheme.
Find out about Bingo Duty, how the duty is charged and who has to pay.
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