{"id":777034856,"date":"2025-11-20T08:26:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777034856"},"modified":"2026-04-21T16:55:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:55:38","slug":"macau-government-forecasts-us29bn-ggr-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-government-forecasts-us29bn-ggr-for-2026","title":{"rendered":"Macau government forecasts US$29bn GGR for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The government has presented the budget for the next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- The government has forecast MOP236bn (US$29.4bn)<\/strong> in gross gaming revenue in Macau for 2026. The estimate is part of the financial-year 2026 budget plan<\/strong>, which has been submitted to the Legislative Assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Income from taxes on the gaming sector<\/a> is estimated to reach MOP92.53bn (US$11.5bn) for 2026. Out of that amount, the government expects to collect MOP82.60bn from the \u201cspecial gaming tax\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macau imposes an effective tax rate of\u00a040 per cent<\/strong>\u00a0on casino GGR as stipulated in the current\u00a010-year gaming concession<\/strong>s which began on\u00a0January 1, 2023<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) reported that Macau\u2019s gross gaming revenue (GGR) was MOP24.09bn (US$3bn) in October<\/a>. Cumulatively, Macau\u2019s GGR for the first ten months of 2025<\/strong> was MOP205.43bn (US$25.64bn), an 8 per cent increase year-on-year. However, the figure remains 16.7 per cent below the January-October period in 2019, when GGR totalled MOP246.74bn (US$30.8bn).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From\u00a0January 2025 to October 2025<\/strong>, the Macau gaming industry contributed\u00a0MOP77.47bn\u00a0(US$9.68bn) in tax revenue<\/a> \u2013 a\u00a06.1 per cent increase<\/strong>\u00a0from the same period last year. In the 10-month period, gaming taxes made up\u00a083.7 per cent<\/strong>\u00a0of total government revenue, according to data released by the\u00a0Financial Services Bureau<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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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 October GGR sets new post-pandemic record<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The government has presented the budget for the next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":777028006,"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 government has projected MOP236bn (US$29.4bn) in Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) for 2026, alongside MOP92.53bn (US$11.5bn) in gaming tax revenue, as part of its financial-year budget plan submitted to the Legislative Assembly. This forecast, based on the 40% effective GGR tax rate, indicates continued market recovery, though 2025 year-to-date GGR remains 16.7% below 2019 pre-pandemic levels.","focusai_entities":"Government, Legislative Assembly, Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ), Financial Services Bureau","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.8), operator_casino (1.0), affiliate_publisher (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Forecast Accuracy","query":"What specific macroeconomic factors and tourism recovery assumptions underpin Macau's MOP236bn GGR forecast for 2026, and how do these align with current visitation trends and mainland China's economic outlook?"},{"label":"Concessionaire Impact","query":"How will the projected MOP92.53bn gaming tax burden for 2026 impact the net profit margins and capital expenditure plans of the six Macau concessionaires, particularly given the ongoing investment commitments tied to their new licenses?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16338,24628,158],"tags":[24994,12436,257],"class_list":["post-777034856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","category-highlight-of-the-week","category-slider-home","tag-budget","tag-casinos","tag-macau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777034856","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=777034856"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777034856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777034877,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777034856\/revisions\/777034877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777028006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777034856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777034856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777034856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}