{"id":1327,"date":"2019-12-07T10:18:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T10:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2026-04-24T09:41:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:41:33","slug":"denmark-igaming-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/denmark-igaming-tax","title":{"rendered":"Denmark to increase iGaming tax"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government of Denmark has decided to increase the iGaming tax in its 2020 budget, which takes effect from 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Denmark.- Denmark\u2019s Social Democratic government approved on Monday the next year\u2019s Finance Act. The new budget in Denmark increases taxes for iGaming and sports betting providers by 8%, which brings the total to 28%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government believes that increasing the taxes to 38% will make them perceive an extra \u20ac20.1 million in profits into government coffers, Xinhua reported. The measure received support from Unity List, Radicals, SF and the Alternative Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government decided to increase the taxes for iGaming and sports betting operators as it believed that it was significantly lower than the one land-based casinos pay. A 45% on gaming gross revenue (GGR) tax is paid by casinos, and an extra 30% on revenue higher than \u20ac535k.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Denmark\u2019s regulator launches awareness campaign<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Spillemyndigheden<\/em><\/strong>, the gambling regulator from Denmark, has announced the launch of a new campaign that intends to bring awareness. The\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/denmark-awareness-campaign-gambling\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>new campaign<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is part of the StopSpillet initiative launched earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The gambling regulator has released different films that will be featured on TV, social media and streaming services. The three films are part of the Pokerfj\u00e6s campaign and highlight the three different compulsive gamblers and their relatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Gambling revenue falls<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gambling activity in Denmark during the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/gambling-denmark-third-quarter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><em>third quarter<\/em><\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;of the year wasn\u2019t as good as expected. The market posted an overall 1% decline in that three-month period, despite an increase in online casino revenue.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government of Denmark has decided to increase the iGaming tax in its 2020 budget, which takes effect from 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Denmark's government has approved an 8% increase in iGaming and sports betting tax, raising the total to 28% from 2021, aiming to generate an additional \u20ac20.1 million and align with land-based casino taxation. Concurrently, the Danish regulator, Spillemyndigheden, launched a new responsible gambling awareness campaign, 'Pokerfj\u00e6s', as the market experienced a 1% overall decline in Q3, despite growth in online casino revenue.","focusai_entities":"Spillemyndigheden, Unity List, Radicals, SF, Alternative Party, Xinhua","focusai_location":"Denmark","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.95), affiliate_publisher (0.75), product_ux (0.7), marketing_crm (0.85), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"NGR Impact Analysis","query":"What is the projected NGR impact for major B2C operators in Denmark due to the 8% tax increase, considering the Q3 market decline?"},{"label":"Regulatory Compliance Evolution","query":"How might Spillemyndigheden's 'StopSpillet' campaign influence future responsible gambling mandates or advertising restrictions for operators, and what are the compliance implications?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16331,2234,163,153],"tags":[1897,1206],"class_list":["post-1327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elsewhere-news","category-emea","category-finance-news","category-igaming-news","tag-igaming","tag-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777009762,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions\/777009762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}