{"id":30751,"date":"2022-06-14T04:06:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T07:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=30751"},"modified":"2026-04-23T07:49:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:49:04","slug":"tabcorp-wants-victoria-to-follow-queenslands-lead-on-online-betting-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/tabcorp-wants-victoria-to-follow-queenslands-lead-on-online-betting-tax","title":{"rendered":"Tabcorp wants Victoria to follow Queensland&#8217;s lead on online betting tax"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tabcorp, with the support of the Alliance for Gambling Reform and the Australian Hotel Association, is pushing the government of Victoria to increase the tax on online betting operators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Australia.- After convincing the state of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/queensland-announces-new-5-racing-levy-added-to-the-betting-tax\" target=\"_blank\">Queensland to add a 5 per cent racing levy<\/a>\u00a0to its betting tax, Tabcorp is going for more. Australia&#8217;s largest gambling company is now pushing Victoria to follow Queensland&#8217;s steps and raise the level of tax on online bookmakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Point of Consumption tax was first introduced in Victoria in 2019 at 8 per cent, the lowest of any jurisdiction in Australia. Two years later, it was raised to 10 per cent, but that&#8217;s still low compared South Australia, Western Australia, Queensland and the ACT, which take 15 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tabcorp has allied with the anti-gambling group\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/victorian-responsible-gambling-foundation-launches-app\" target=\"_blank\">The Alliance for Gambling Reform<\/a>\u00a0to call for an overhaul of the tax, licencing and advertising arrangements for online bookmakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tim Costello<\/strong>, chief advocate for the alliance, told The Age: \u201cEven at a 20 per cent point of consumption tax Victoria will claw back a bit more, but these are still foreign-owned companies not paying their fair share of tax.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tabcorp chief executive<strong> Adam Rytenskild\u00a0<\/strong>said: \u201cTAB pays double the fees and taxes, which works in a monopoly environment, but the market share has changed. Online operators have increased their share and should be contributing to the industry on a level playing field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll we want is a level playing field where everyone pays the same taxes and fees. That\u2019s fair.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tabcorp, with the support of the Alliance for Gambling Reform and the Australian Hotel Association, is pushing the government of Victoria to increase the tax on online betting operators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":17276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Tabcorp, supported by the Alliance for Gambling Reform and the Australian Hotel Association, is lobbying the Victorian government to increase the Point of Consumption (POC) tax on online betting operators. This initiative follows a successful push in Queensland and aims to level the competitive playing field, as Tabcorp argues foreign-owned online bookmakers pay disproportionately lower taxes compared to its own operations.","focusai_entities":"Tabcorp, Alliance for Gambling Reform, Australian Hotel Association, Tim Costello, Adam Rytenskild","focusai_location":"Australia, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, ACT","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (1.0), affiliate_publisher (0.7), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Operator Profitability?","query":"What is the projected impact on NGR and EBITDA margins for online betting operators in Victoria if the Point of Consumption tax is raised to 15% or 20%?"},{"label":"Regulatory Harmonization Outlook?","query":"Given Tabcorp's successful lobbying in Queensland and ongoing efforts in Victoria, what is the likelihood of a broader regulatory harmonization of POC tax rates and licensing frameworks across all Australian states and territories?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,157,158],"tags":[23911,13716],"class_list":["post-30751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-business-news","category-slider-home","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-tabcorp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30751","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=30751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30770,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30751\/revisions\/30770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}