Report urges Greece to stick with 35% online gambling tax

A new government-commissioned study has suggested Greece stick with its controversial plan to impose a 35% tax on online gambling revenue.

Last week, US consulting firm Grant Thornton delivered its report on Greece’s online gambling market, which the government had commissioned last year as part of its oft-delayed revamp of the nation’s online gambling regulatory structure.

According to the Grant Thornton report, Greece should offer two types of licenses: a Type A license covering purely sports betting, while Type B licenses would apply to all other gambling verticals (casino, poker, etc.).

The government is also urged not to put an arbitrary cap on the number of available licenses (the type of which got Germany’s sports betting licensing regime into so much trouble with domestic and European Union courts).