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Turnover tax may doom German re-regulation, report warns
27th January 2021
| By Daniel O Boyle
A proposed 8% tax on slot stakes in Germany would undermine the player protection goals set out in the new State Treaty on Gambling, and jeopardise the success of the regulated market, according to leading economist Dr Justus Haucap.
The report was complied by the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) for which Haucap serves as a director.
It was commissioned by operator associations the Deutscher Sportwettenverband (DSWV) and the Deutscher Online Casinoverband (DOCV), is in response to recommendations from a working group made up of the State Finance Ministries of Hesse, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Bayern and Berlin.