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Apply to the Gambling Commission for a personal gambling licence or a gambling operating licence if you run or manage a gambling business. The Gambling Commission regulates arcades, betting, bingo, casinos, gaming machine providers, gambling software providers, lottery operators, external...
Guidance and forms covering gambling duties. Including, Bingo, Gaming, Lottery and Machine Games Duty, general betting duty and payments.
Find out how to apply VAT to betting, gaming, bingo, lotteries and machine games.
Use this service to register to for General Betting Duty (GBD), [Pool Betting Duty (PBD) or Remote Gaming Duty (RGD).
Find out if you have to pay, when and how to register, the rates, how to fill in returns and make payments.
Data on amusement permits, bingo clubs and bookmaking office licences, as well as the number employed in the gambling sector and annual gambling turnover.
Gambling industry statistics are published twice a year (in May and November) and provide the latest information on each sector regulated by the Gambling Commission.
Gambling industry statistics provide the latest information on each sector regulated by the Gambling Commission.
Form Gambling - Application for fee remission for companies
Gambling Minister Stuart Andrew updates on gambling white paper progress at the Betting and Gaming Council Annual General Meeting
Working with the EU in the gambling sector.
How to register, make changes to your registration, view your account and submit returns online
People at risk of gambling-related harm will be better protected under government plans to update betting rules for the digital age.
This is the government response to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Social and Economic Impact of the Gambling Industry
Oral statement by the Culture Secretary on the white paper setting out government's plans for major reform of gambling laws
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