{"id":777028772,"date":"2025-07-08T08:16:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T11:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777028772"},"modified":"2026-04-21T21:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:12:19","slug":"philippine-president-open-to-considering-proposed-new-online-gambling-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/philippine-president-open-to-considering-proposed-new-online-gambling-legislation","title":{"rendered":"Philippine president open to new online gambling regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

President Marcos has reportedly said he will not oppose any measure seeking to address gambling addiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Philippines.- President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. is reportedly open to proposals for tighter regulations and taxation of digital gaming. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Department of Finance (DOF) is currently exploring measures to impose new taxes on online gaming platforms<\/strong>. One bill proposes a 10 per cent tax on operators to fund addiction treatment and recovery programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Palace press officer Claire Castro<\/strong> said: \u201cThe President is aware of the possible effects on gambling addicts and will not oppose proposals that are backed by sufficient study.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She added: \u201cThis proposal to impose a tax to restrict online gaming is for the good of the Filipino family. The president is aware of the possible effects on gambling addicts and will not oppose it as long as the proposal is well-studied.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Claire Castro.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe president listens, especially to what is happening to our countrymen and whatever bill would be passed, it will be carefully studied to see if it will benefit our economy and at the same time benefit the people,\u201d Castro said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Senate president Juan Miguel Zubiri’s Anti-Online Gambling Act of 2025 seeks to ban online gambling in all forms, including mobile applications and websites. Senator Sherwin Gatchalian<\/a> has filed a separate bill proposing tighter restrictions without a full ban. Senator Alan Peter Cayetano<\/strong> is pushing for e-wallet providers<\/a> to prevent their platforms from facilitating transactions linked to online gambling.
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\n\t\t\tSee also:<\/span><\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> Macau plans changes to ad regulations, including gambling<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Marcos has reportedly said he will not oppose any measure seeking to address gambling addiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":777029780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"President Marcos Jr. is reportedly open to proposals for stricter regulation and taxation of digital gaming in the Philippines, driven by concerns over gambling addiction. The Department of Finance is exploring a 10% operator tax for addiction programs, while legislative proposals range from a complete ban on online gambling to tighter restrictions and mandates for e-wallet providers to block related transactions.","focusai_entities":"Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., Department of Finance (DOF), Claire Castro, Juan Miguel Zubiri, Sherwin Gatchalian, Alan Peter Cayetano","focusai_location":"Philippines","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.95), affiliate_publisher (0.85), product_ux (0.7), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"What is the projected impact on the Philippine iGaming GGR and NGR under the proposed 10% operator tax versus a full market ban, considering potential shifts to unregulated markets?"},{"label":"Regulatory Implementation Timeline","query":"What is the anticipated legislative timeline for these diverse proposals, and what specific governance frameworks will be established for enforcement and compliance monitoring?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[24628,154,158,16333],"tags":[23911,4138,405,24738],"class_list":["post-777028772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-highlight-of-the-week","category-legislation-news","category-slider-home","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-online-gambling","tag-pagcor","tag-taxation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777028772","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\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777028772"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777028772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777028779,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777028772\/revisions\/777028779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777029780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777028772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777028772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777028772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}