No tax increase on Irish online gambling

The Irish Government has confirmed this week that is has no plans to tax bookmakers operating over the telephone or online because it needs to spend more time researching the industry. Brian Lenihan the Irish minister for Finance declared that the tax on land based bookmakers was to doubled to two per cent on turnover from the beginning of next year, but online and telephone service will remain tax-free

Previous attempts to tax the online betting industry by the Irish Government have failed as many of them mover their operation to Gibraltar and other tax havens. The government however has stated that it does wish to force some type of tax onto the sector in the future.