Macau gaming tax revenue up 13% January-June
The government collected US$6.3bn from casino operations in the first half of 2026.
Macau.- The Financial Services Bureau has reported that Macau collected MOP51.19bn (US$5.27bn) in casino taxes in the first six months of the year. The figure was up 13.1 per cent year-on-year. Gaming taxes accounted for nearly 87.6 per cent of government revenue.
Under the 10-year concessions that came into effect on January 1, 2023, casinos pay 40 per cent on GGR. The monthly tax receipts for June amounted to MOP8.67bn (US$1.07bn), up 6.3 per cent from the same month last year.
The Macau government’s 2026 fiscal budget plan estimated that income from taxes on the gaming sector will reach MOP92.53bn (US$11.52bn) this year. The tally for the first half of 2026 represented 55.3 per cent of that amount. The city recorded a fiscal surplus of MOP13.28bn (US$1.6bn) for the January-June period, up 14.7 per cent year-on-year.
The Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) reported that Macau’s gross gaming revenue (GGR) was MOP18.52bn (US$2.8bn) in June. Cumulatively, GGR for the first half of 2026 stood at MOP126.9bn (US$15.72bn), up 6.8 per cent year-on-year but 15.1 per cent below pre-pandemic levels in 2019, when GGR totalled MOP149.5bn (US$18.5bn).
