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FEATURE of the tax, and a hike to 25% has been mooted? Not at all, I think in fact it’s the opposite. All our acquisitions have been based on paying multiples that include the pointof-consumption tax, and we feel that an important advantage of being a dominant market player is that you can absorb a tax because your margins are better relative to your peers. All our transactions, as least based on the UK portion of revenue, have been factored on a multiple that includes the effect of the point of consumption tax. “With the Jackpotjoy acquisition, we are going to end up with 26-27% of UK market share among those operators with a bingo-led product.” The Gamesys deal saw you acquire the brands (and the profits) but not the technology behind Jackpotjoy, Bo ѕ