{"id":14018,"date":"2021-02-01T14:16:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T14:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=14018"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:12:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:12:50","slug":"india-goan-casino-taxes-total-us175m-since-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-goan-casino-taxes-total-us175m-since-2012","title":{"rendered":"India: Goan casino taxes total US$175m since 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Offshore casinos contributed US$108m and land-based casinos US$67.5m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>India.- Pramod Sawant, Goa&#8217;s chief minister, has announced that casinos in the city paid US$175m in tax in the last nine years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Sawant, <strong>offshore casinos contributed US$108m and land-based casinos US$67.5m<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state has six offshore casinos located on the Mandovi River and 10 five-star hotels that offer electronic gaming machines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, <strong>gambling is only allowed in two states in India, Goa and <\/strong><em><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/sikkim-close-casino-india\" target=\"_blank\">Sikkim<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The news comes as <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/goa-considers-banning-locals-from-casinos\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Goa considers banning locals from casinos<\/em><\/strong><\/a> in order to placate opponents of the local gaming industry. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Offshore casinos contributed US$108m and land-based casinos US$67.5m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":14026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Goa's casinos generated US$175m in tax revenue over nine years, with offshore operations contributing US$108m and land-based casinos US$67.5m. This financial disclosure by Chief Minister Pramod Sawant comes as the state, one of only two in India where gambling is legal, considers a policy to ban local residents from casinos.","focusai_entities":"Pramod Sawant","focusai_location":"India, Goa, Sikkim","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.95), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), gambler_consumer (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact of Local Ban?","query":"What is the projected impact on Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) and Net Gaming Revenue (NGR) for Goa's casino operators if the proposed ban on local residents is implemented?"},{"label":"Goa Tax Comparison?","query":"How do Goa's casino tax contributions compare to other regulated iGaming jurisdictions, and what are the implications for the state's fiscal policy and regulatory framework?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,16334],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-14018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regulation-news","category-south-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14018","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14018"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14038,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14018\/revisions\/14038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}