{"id":3759,"date":"2020-02-21T10:32:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T10:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=3759"},"modified":"2026-04-24T07:39:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:39:40","slug":"virginia-casino-legislation-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/virginia-casino-legislation-tax","title":{"rendered":"Virginia passes low tax casino bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lawmakers in Virginia dismissed a casino bill that would\u2019ve set higher taxes and stuck with the House\u2019s original version instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>US.- The Legislature is soon to get Virginia its own casino legislation. However, two different versions were fighting its way through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ultimately, the original version, coming from the House, succeeded. The Virginia casino bill sets taxes lower than the one coming from the Senate, which failed to pass<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zLMeDUBKmBs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The House General Laws Committee voted 12-6 to report out Senate Bill 36.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s got five locations, which are Bristol, Danville, Norfolk, Portsmouth and Richmond,\u201d Del. Barry Knight said on the bill. \u201cThese are economically depressed areas that could use the jobs in the state of Virginia<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/philippines-online-gaming-pagcor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI believe that this measure very much accomplishes the overall objective of bringing a lot of people to the table and looking at it from a global perspective. For that reason I support the measure,\u201d Del. Joe Lindsey added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers in Virginia dismissed a casino bill that would\u2019ve set higher taxes and stuck with the House\u2019s original version instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Virginia lawmakers have approved the House's version of a casino bill, which features lower tax rates compared to the rejected Senate proposal. This legislation designates five economically depressed areas for casino development, aiming to stimulate job creation and economic growth within the state.","focusai_entities":"House General Laws Committee, House, Senate, Del. Barry Knight, Del. Joe Lindsey","focusai_location":"US, Virginia, Bristol, Danville, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Richmond","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.8), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis?","query":"What is the projected Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) impact of the approved lower tax rate for potential casino operators in Virginia, and how does this compare to initial Senate bill projections?"},{"label":"Competitive Landscape Shift?","query":"How will the finalized tax structure influence the competitive landscape and M&A activity among prospective casino developers vying for licenses in the designated Virginia locations?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,16331],"tags":[29,2319],"class_list":["post-3759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-casino-news","category-elsewhere-news","tag-casino","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759","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=3759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3760,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759\/revisions\/3760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}