{"id":777043445,"date":"2026-06-11T07:40:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T10:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777043445"},"modified":"2026-06-11T10:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:09:14","slug":"macau-gaming-tax-revenue-up-14-6-january-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-gaming-tax-revenue-up-14-6-january-may","title":{"rendered":"Macau gaming tax revenue up 14.6% January-May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The government collected US$5.27bn from casino operations in the first five months of 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- The Financial Services Bureau<\/strong> has reported that Macau collected MOP42.52bn (US$5.27bn)<\/strong> in casino taxes in the first five months of the year. The figure was up 14.6 per cent year-on-year and represents 46 per cent of the full-year budget target.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gaming taxes accounted for nearly 85 per cent of government revenue in the five months to May 31. Under the 10-year concessions that came into effect on January 1, 2023, casinos pay 40 per cent on GGR. The Macau government\u2019s 2026 fiscal budget plan estimates that income from taxes on the gaming sector will reach MOP92.53bn (US$11.52bn) this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) reported that Macau\u2019s gross gaming revenue (GGR) was\u00a0MOP22.61bn (US$2.8bn)\u00a0in May.\u00a0Gaming tax revenue reached MOP7.65bn (US$948m), down 15.6 per cent from April<\/a>. Cumulatively, Macau\u2019s GGR for the\u00a0five months of 2026<\/a>\u00a0was MOP108.38bn (US$13.44bn), up 10.9 per cent year-on-year.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> Macau gaming tax revenue up 16.9% January-April<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The government collected US$5.27bn from casino operations in the first five months of 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":777027981,"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 casino tax revenue reached US$5.27bn in the first five months of 2026, marking a 14.6% year-on-year increase and fulfilling 46% of the full-year budget target. This gaming tax, derived from a 40% GGR rate under the new 10-year concessions, constituted nearly 85% of the government's total revenue for the period, with cumulative GGR at US$13.44bn.","focusai_entities":"Financial Services Bureau, Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ)","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.75), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Macau GGR Outlook?","query":"Given the current GGR trajectory and tax collection rates, what is the revised forecast for Macau's full-year 2026 GGR and the likelihood of exceeding the government's budget target, considering Q2 and Q3 seasonality?"},{"label":"Concession Financial Impact?","query":"How do the tax revenues and GGR performance in the first five months of 2026 reflect the financial impact and sustainability of the new 10-year gaming concessions implemented in January 2023 for the concessionaires?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,163,158],"tags":[12436,257,2895],"class_list":["post-777043445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-finance-news","category-slider-home","tag-casinos","tag-macau","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777043445","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=777043445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777043445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777043455,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777043445\/revisions\/777043455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777027981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777043445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777043445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777043445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}