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Dutch law proposal on internet gambling approved |
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dinsdag, 09 september 2008 |
Today, the Senate agreed on the Law of the Lower House proposal to the
proceeds of gambling on the Internet to eliminate tax, even if the
supply of these games on Internet gambling illegal. This is an
amendment to the current law regarding the kansspelbelasting chance to
play via the Internet. The law proposal is accepted without a roll call
vote, the SP-only group said against the proposal.
Central to this decision was whether by levying a tax on illegal gambling via the Internet, these activities are actually not just be allowed but the speech by Secretary De Jager was that the tax does not distinguish between legal and illegal suppliers. The offer must be equal tax treatment, also called the principle of fiscal neutrality. Attempts by SP-Reuten senator to his colleagues on other thoughts to bring failed. The SP looks more in a criminal prosecution of the illegal kanspelaanbod.
Senator Biermans (VVD) noted that the lifting of taxes on illegal activities carried out since time immemorial.
The VVD senator held its SP colleague Reuten, that the SP Group in the Lower House before the bill voted. Reuten pointed out time and again that this in another context, it is done: the Lower House has also agreed to a trial by legal gambling via the Internet. This bill is precisely in the Upper House in april this year rejected as a result of which all gambling on the Internet in the Netherlands illegally remained.
The question now is how the bill will work in practice. Which steps will be taken to the foreign suppliers of gambling on the Internet in the Netherlands to ban are not currently clear. So there are still many unknowns about what can and can not be illegal. A Dutch player can abroad on his laptop legally in a foreign bookmaker conclude a bet while he was working illegally when he bet the same plane across the border again shutting down. How the Tax returns that players can legally make a profit on illegal gambling and how the tax the foreign operators of gambling can tackle is also still quite unclear.
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