{"id":6281,"date":"2020-05-07T12:03:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T12:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=6281"},"modified":"2026-04-24T05:25:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:25:52","slug":"anti-pogo-bill-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/anti-pogo-bill-philippines","title":{"rendered":"Anti-POGO bill filed by lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Anti-POGO bill would ban all Offshore Gaming Operations from the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Philippines.- Philippine lawmakers have filed a bill labelled the Anti-POGO bill, designed to ban Philippine Offshore Gaming Operations (POGOs) from the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Led by House Minority Leader, Bienvenido Abante Jr., the filing of the proposed Anti-POGO Act aims to prohibit the facilitation of any offshore gaming through any means or device within the Philippine territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Licenses of foreign-based operators, local gaming agents, <strong><em>POGOs<\/em><\/strong> and service providers for purposes of offshore gaming operations shall be deemed withdrawn, revoked, or denied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bill read: &#8220;It is therefore declared by the State that &#8216;Philippine Offshore Gaming Operations&#8217; or &#8216;POGOs&#8217; conducted within the Philippines have increasingly become a social menace and a source of unimaginable corruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It has made a mockery of our anti-money laundering, immigration and tax laws. It has been a source of untold criminal offences and heinous crimes related to the conduct of such operations.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was announced earlier this week that <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/pogo-philippines-tax\">POGOs would not be entitled to any tax breaks<\/a><\/em><\/strong> from the Philippines government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-POGO bill would ban all Offshore Gaming Operations from the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Philippine lawmakers have filed an \"Anti-POGO bill\" aimed at banning all Philippine Offshore Gaming Operations (POGOs) from the country. Led by House Minority Leader Bienvenido Abante Jr., the proposed legislation cites POGOs as a \"social menace\" and a source of corruption, money laundering, and criminal offenses. If enacted, it would revoke all existing licenses for foreign-based operators, local agents, POGOs, and service providers, further impacting the sector following a recent denial of tax breaks.","focusai_entities":"Bienvenido Abante Jr., House Minority Leader, Philippine lawmakers, Philippines government","focusai_location":"Philippines","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.98), compliance_legal (0.97), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.75), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.92), investor_analyst (0.96), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"POGO Ban Impact","query":"What is the projected economic impact on the Philippines' GGR and NGR from the proposed POGO ban, considering both direct tax revenues and indirect economic contributions?"},{"label":"Regulatory Precedent","query":"How might this legislative action in the Philippines influence regulatory compliance frameworks and governance models for offshore gaming operations in other Asian jurisdictions?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,161,439,158,16333],"tags":[128,15789],"class_list":["post-6281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-daily-news","category-legal-news","category-slider-home","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-philippines","tag-pogos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6281","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=6281"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777010499,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6281\/revisions\/777010499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}