{"id":777044781,"date":"2026-07-13T07:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T10:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777044781"},"modified":"2026-07-13T10:09:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:09:35","slug":"macau-gaming-tax-revenue-up-13-january-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-gaming-tax-revenue-up-13-january-june","title":{"rendered":"Macau gaming tax revenue up 13% January-June"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The government collected US$6.3bn from casino operations in the first half of 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- The Financial Services Bureau<\/strong> has reported that Macau collected MOP51.19bn (US$5.27bn) in casino taxes<\/strong> in the first six months of the year. The figure was up 13.1 per cent year-on-year. Gaming taxes accounted for nearly 87.6 per cent of government revenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the 10-year concessions that came into effect on January 1, 2023, casinos pay 40 per cent on GGR.\u00a0The monthly tax receipts for June amounted to MOP8.67bn (US$1.07bn), up 6.3 per cent from the same month last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Macau government\u2019s 2026 fiscal budget plan <\/strong>estimated that income from taxes on the gaming sector will reach MOP92.53bn (US$11.52bn) this year. The tally for the first half of 2026 represented 55.3 per cent of that amount. The city recorded a fiscal surplus of MOP13.28bn (US$1.6bn) for the January-June period, up 14.7 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) reported that Macau\u2019s gross gaming revenue (GGR) was MOP18.52bn (US$2.8bn) in June<\/a>. Cumulatively, GGR for the first half of 2026 stood at MOP126.9bn (US$15.72bn)<\/strong>, up 6.8 per cent year-on-year but 15.1 per cent below pre-pandemic levels in 2019, when GGR totalled MOP149.5bn (US$18.5bn).<\/p>\n\n\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> Macau gaming tax revenue up 14.6% January-May<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The government collected US$6.3bn from casino operations in the first half of 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":16128,"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 MOP51.19bn (US$5.27bn) in H1 2026, a 13.1% year-on-year increase, contributing 87.6% to government revenue. This figure represents 55.3% of the full-year fiscal budget target, with H1 GGR standing at MOP126.9bn (US$15.72bn), up 6.8% YoY but still 15.1% below 2019 pre-pandemic levels. The city recorded a fiscal surplus of MOP13.28bn (US$1.6bn) for the period.","focusai_entities":"Financial Services Bureau, Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ)","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (0.95), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Macau GGR Outlook?","query":"Given the H1 2026 GGR performance and tax receipts, what is the revised projection for Macau's full-year GGR and its implications for government fiscal targets and concessionaire profitability?"},{"label":"Pre-Pandemic Recovery Pace?","query":"What are the primary drivers and potential impediments to Macau's GGR fully recovering to pre-pandemic levels, considering the current 15.1% deficit compared to 2019?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,163,24628,158],"tags":[29,23908,257],"class_list":["post-777044781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-finance-news","category-highlight-of-the-week","category-slider-home","tag-casino","tag-gaming-regulation","tag-macau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777044781","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=777044781"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777044781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777044788,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777044781\/revisions\/777044788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777044781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777044781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777044781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}