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Find out how to apply VAT to betting, gaming, bingo, lotteries and machine games.

• Updated: 31 March 2017

Find out which online gambling free games and bonuses you offer are liable to tax, and how to calculate your liability.

• Updated: 30 August 2017

Military personnel from over 40 nations compete to sharpen cyber skills through gaming applying lessons from Ukraine's use of gaming technology in warfare.

• Updated: 21 November 2025

A best-practice supporting tool for research into video games.

• Updated: 30 May 2023

The Board was responsible for regulating arcades, betting, bingo, casinos, slot machines and lotteries. It was replaced by the Gambling Commission in 2007.

• Updated: 15 April 2021

Bi-annual betting and gaming receipts and declarations statistics. Updated with provisional data from April to September 2024.

• Updated: 31 October 2024

Bi-annual betting and gaming receipts and declarations statistics. Updated with provisional data from April to August 2025.

• Updated: 30 September 2025

Bi-annual betting and gaming receipts and declarations statistics. Updated with provisional data from October 2021 to March 2022.

• Updated: 23 May 2022

Bi-annual betting and gaming receipts and declarations statistics. Updated with provisional data from October 2022 to March 2023.

• Updated: 28 April 2023

Bi-annual betting and gaming receipts and declarations statistics. Updated with provisional data from April to September 2022.

• Updated: 28 October 2022