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Find out if you have to pay, when and how to register, the rates, how to fill in returns and make payments.

• Updated: 29 April 2024

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

• Updated: 31 March 2017

A guide to organising a street party - telling your council, closing roads, getting insurance and licences

• Telling your local council

  Street parties on quiet streets that do not affect the wider road network…

• Closing a road

  You’ll need to get permission from your local council to close a road.…

• Licences

  Alcohol and food A licence is not needed if you’re going to provide…

Multi-million-pound package to turn the tide on ailing high streets, targeted in places most in need of support

• Updated: 31 January 2026

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...

• Updated: 14 February 2023

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 August 2025.

• Updated: 30 September 2025

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

• Updated: 28 October 2022

Bi-annual betting and gaming receipts and declarations statistics. Updated with provisional data from October 2023 to March 2024.

• Updated: 30 April 2024