Part 3: Spain – an expanded market
can be seen, the total number of active players of Regulus Partners suggests that a doubling or
drops significantly in the summer months before tripling of the market over the next three to five
bouncing back come the start of the football years “does not stretch infrastructure, consumers
season in September. or credibility.”
Taxing times
Chart 5: Spanish online product splits, Q317
The interest in the market comes despite its
being a relatively highly taxed jurisdiction with
an effective top tax rate of 28%. What will
have come as music to the ears of current and
prospective licensees were comments made at
Other
3%
Bingo
2%
Fixed-Odds
Sports Betting
53%
a gambling conference in Madrid in October by
Juan Espinosa García, director general of the
DGOJ, that a review of the taxation regime is in
the offing.
The move was also signalled in the new licenses
tender document, which suggested that any
Casino
Games
31%
new applicants could make a decision about
whether to apply “both in the current context of
the gaming market as well as that of the medium
term as a result of possible new regulations.”
The current growth momentum should
Poker
11%
continue in the medium term and the potential
for both lower taxes and more licensees might
see the rate of growth increase further. Leyland
iGaming Business Market Monitor • December 2017
Source: The Directorate General for the Regulation of Gambling
(DGOJ)
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