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Register to vote Register by 18 June to vote in the General Election on 4 July.
Find out how to apply VAT to betting, gaming, bingo, lotteries and machine games.
How to pay Gaming or Bingo Duty, and how long it takes for your payment to reach HMRC.
Find out if you have to pay, when and how to register, the rates, how to fill in returns and make payments.
Register for Gaming Duty using the online service or the postal form (GD56).
Find out when and how to pay your General Betting, Pool Betting or Remote Gaming Duty.
Register your partnership details when you apply to be included on the Gaming Duty Register using form GD57.
How Gaming Duty is charged, and who has to pay.
Tell HMRC about premises you want to include in, or remove from your entry on the Gaming Duty Register using form GD58.
More than £3 million of government funding has been awarded to emerging video game developers and start-up studios to help them scale their businesses and create the next British gaming hits.
An update from the government on industry-led measures to improve player protections with regards to loot boxes in video games.
Find out if you should pay Gaming Duty, how to register and how to pay.
Use the online service to send your Gaming Duty return using form GD95.
The CMA is carrying out a market investigation in respect of the supply of mobile browsers and browser engines, and the distribution of cloud gaming services through app stores on mobile devices in the UK.
Find out which online gambling free games and bonuses you offer are liable to tax, and how to calculate your liability.
The Board was responsible for regulating arcades, betting, bingo, casinos, slot machines and lotteries. It was replaced by the Gambling Commission in 2007.
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
When and how to appoint a representative in the UK and HMRC approval.
A best-practice supporting tool for research into video games.
This Tax Information and Impact Note details the increase to the gross gaming yield (GGY) bandings for gaming duty in line with inflation.
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