{"id":25591,"date":"2021-12-15T11:13:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T14:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=25591"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:54:10","slug":"macau-11-month-gaming-tax-revenue-reaches-us3-89bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-11-month-gaming-tax-revenue-reaches-us3-89bn","title":{"rendered":"Macau 11-month gaming tax revenue reaches US$3.89bn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Macau\u2019s tax revenue from the gaming industry was up 15.1 per cent year-on-year for January to November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- Authorities in Macau have shared a financial report showing that <strong>the city collected MOP31.28bn (US$3.89bn) from gaming taxes<\/strong>\u00a0between January 1 and November 30. The figure is an increase of 15.1 per cent when compared to 2020 but is lower than what authorities had budgeted for, representing just 62.5 per cent of the MOP50.01bn (US$6.22bn) forecast for full-year 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Direct gaming taxes accounted for 66.8 per cent of total government revenue of MOP46.85bn in the first 11 months of 2021. Aggregate\u00a0<strong>casino GGR for the first eleven months of the year<\/strong>\u00a0totals MOP78.90bn, up 49.9 per cent year-on-year from MOP52.62bn in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Macau\u2019s gross gaming revenue (GGR)&nbsp;<\/strong>was&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-up-54-6-in-november\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">up 54.6 per cent month-on-month in November<\/a>, from MOP4.37bn (US$544m) to MOP6.75bn (US$844m). The figure was also up slightly when compared to November 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preparing\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-predicts-ggr-of-us16-2bn-for-2022\">next year\u2019s fiscal budget plan<\/a>, the government of Macau has predicted that<strong>\u00a0GGR for 2022 will be MOP130bn (US$16.2bn)<\/strong>, half that seen before the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macau\u2019s tax revenue from the gaming industry was up 15.1 per cent year-on-year for January to November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Macau's gaming tax revenue increased 15.1% year-on-year for January-November, reaching MOP31.28bn, though this was significantly below the MOP50.01bn budget for 2021. Aggregate casino GGR for the same period rose 49.9% to MOP78.90bn, with November GGR also showing a strong month-on-month increase. The government forecasts MOP130bn GGR for 2022, half of pre-pandemic levels.","focusai_entities":"","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), operator_casino (1.0), affiliate_publisher (0.7), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Macau 2022 GGR Outlook","query":"What specific policy adjustments or market conditions are anticipated to drive Macau's projected MOP130bn GGR for 2022, particularly given the persistent gap to pre-pandemic levels?"},{"label":"Tax Revenue Discrepancy","query":"What are the primary factors contributing to Macau's significant gaming tax revenue shortfall against the 2021 budget, and what implications does this have for future fiscal planning and public services?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338,158],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-25591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25591","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=25591"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25607,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25591\/revisions\/25607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}