Tools & change-watch.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom — Remote General Betting Duty announced to rise from 15% to 25% from April 2027 (land-based, horse-racing and pool bets carved out at 15%)

🇬🇧 United Kingdom — Remote Gaming Duty raised from 21% to 40% effective 1 April 2026 (Autumn Budget 2025); Bingo Duty abolished April 2026

🇩🇪 Germany — GGL intensified enforcement against unlicensed operators (IP and payment blocking); ongoing industry and political debate over the 5.3% turnover tax and strict deposit/stake limits pushing players toward the illegal market, alongside a scheduled evaluation of the GlüStV 2021 regime.

🇳🇱 Netherlands — Gaming tax rose to 34.2% on 1 Jan 2025 with a further rise to 37.8% due 1 Jan 2026 (under industry and parliamentary challenge); KSA monitoring shows unlicensed play growing and tax revenue well below forecast; new duty-of-care rules, possible cross-operator deposit limits and a higher minimum age for high-risk games are under consideration.

🇬🇮 Gibraltar — UK Remote Gaming Duty rising to 40% (1 April 2026) is a major pressure on Gibraltar operators serving the British market

🇬🇧 United Kingdom — Statutory levy on operators (0.1%-1.1% of GGY; 1.1% for remote) commenced 6 April 2025; financial-risk / affordability checks being piloted under the 2023 White Paper

🇲🇹 Malta — MGA continued tightening AML and player-protection technical/reporting requirements amid ongoing EU pressure over cross-border licensing

🇩🇰 Denmark — New B2B game-supplier licensing requirement and updated game-certification programme took effect 1 January 2025; revised Executive Orders for betting and online casino issued June 2025.

🇸🇪 Sweden — Updated annual supervision fees (around SEK 264,000 per licence) applied from 1 January 2025.

🇸🇪 Sweden — Continued focus on channelisation and measures against unlicensed/offshore operators targeting Swedish consumers.

🇬🇮 Gibraltar — Gambling Act 2025 in force 1 October 2025, replacing the 2005 Act: new B2C/B2B/GOSS licence categories, substance requirements, empowered Commissioner and Appeals Tribunal; new fee schedules and codes of practice forthcoming

🇨🇼 Curaçao — Curaçao LOK: new National Ordinance for Games of Chance in force 24 Dec 2024; direct CGA licensing replacing the master/sub-licence model; old sub-licences expired in 2025 and the transition (portals, migration, detailed rules) is ongoing — high volatility.

🇺🇸 New Jersey — Effective 1 July 2025, NJ raised the tax on online casino GGR from 15% to 19.75% (and internet sports wagering from 13% to 19.75%, DFS from 10.5% to 19.75%) via the FY2026 budget bill A5803; Gov. Murphy had initially sought 25%.

🇺🇸 New Jersey — New Jersey moved to restrict/ban unlicensed sweepstakes ('social casino') operators offering casino-style play.

🇺🇸 Pennsylvania — PGCB reported record annual gaming revenue with interactive gaming (iGaming) continuing strong growth; the 54% online-slots / 16% table-games iGaming tax rates were unchanged.

🇺🇸 Pennsylvania — Continued legislative debate over taxing and regulating unlicensed 'skill games' and possible future online-tax changes, but iGaming rates remained as set as of 2026.

🇨🇦 Ontario (Canada) — iGO continued as an independent agency (12 May 2025) under the iGaming Ontario Act, 2024, ending its subsidiary relationship with the AGCO; national single-event/interprovincial questions continue to develop.

🇸🇪 Sweden — Gambling tax raised from 18% to 22% of gross gambling revenue effective 1 July 2024; industry (BOS) warned it could pressure channelisation toward unlicensed operators.

🇮🇲 Isle of Man — GSC adopted an updated enforcement policy (June 2024) emphasising civil penalties and public disclosures; increased enforcement activity since.

🇲🇹 Malta — Bill 55 (Gaming Act amendment) shields MGA licensees from enforcement in Malta of certain foreign judgments contrary to Malta's regime — controversial with other EU states

⚖️ UKGC enforcement — William Hill group (WHG (International), Mr Green, William Hill Organization) — £19.2m — Record UK settlement for widespread anti-money-laundering and social-responsibility failings across the group's brands

⚖️ UKGC enforcement — Kindred Group (32Red £4.2m + Platinum Gaming / Unibet £2.9m) — £7.1m — Combined penalty for AML and social-responsibility failures, including weak source-of-funds triggers and controls

⚖️ UKGC enforcement — Entain (LC International / Ladbrokes Coral) — £17m — Then-largest UKGC penalty for AML and social-responsibility failures across online and land-based businesses

⚖️ UKGC enforcement — 888 UK Limited — £9.4m — AML and social-responsibility failings, including letting customers deposit up to £40,000 before source-of-funds checks

⚖️ FIAU (Malta) enforcement — Online Amusement Solution Limited — €386,567 — One of Malta's largest gaming AML fines, for breaches of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act following a 2019 inspection