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The long wait for the State Treaty on gaming


panel of experts on the sports conference calls SpoBiS competitive tax rates - Who wants a monopoly, calls the power of censorship


Andreas Schultheis

Dusseldorf, February 2011 - is now at last fall a decision. The year 2011 will bring movement to the German gaming market. In March, the prime ministers meet next time on the draft State Treaty on gaming (GST), in June again. Reliable signals, in which direction - to lay down or tightening of the existing monopoly or the controlled market opening and licensing of private providers of sports betting and online services - the journey was looking for, but also a panel of experts at Europe's largest sports business conference SpoBiS http://www . spobis.de Dusseldorf in vain. "The field is open", while Lower Saxony FDP faction leader Christian Dürr noted soberly. Although the Liberals were clearly positioned for a controlled opening of the market and in Schleswig-Holstein there is already a bill of the government parties of the CDU and FDP. In the other provinces the situation is less clear. For Hesse, Thuringia, Saxony, Bavaria and Lower Saxony, however, there is clearly a tendency to follow the path of liberalization. The monopoly advocates who are even considering to block online bidding and he was accused of wanting to restrict civil liberties. In plain English: Who wants a monopoly, was for the censorship of the Internet.
For Peter Peters, CFO of football Bundesliga club FC Schalke 04 is the lengthy political debate is not traceable. All positions are exchanged. He criticized in particular the apparent resistance in the national parliaments to resolve the issue properly oriented. Dürr as he pointed out that the State Treaty on gaming and Europe failed unlawful. bwin fact that director Jörg Wacker followed the line of argument of the previous speakers, was hardly surprising. "You have to look reality in the face," he asked, referring to the years - on tax evasion - growing sales, especially of the online market distortion.
In an introductory presentation, Dr. Klaus Goldhammer, managing director of consulting firm Media Gold http://www.goldmedia.com, on market developments and market potential provides information on the German sports betting market. Referring to the gold media study "gambling market in Germany 2015", he outlined the decline of the stakes in the state sports betting Oddset by 64 percent and the football Totos by 39 percent in recent years. Meanwhile, the gross gaming revenue in the overall online market from 2005 to 2009 had increased in average by almost 30 percent, with the sports betting rose by 28 percent could define the segment of online poker as much as 35 percent annually. For the forecast 2015, he faced two scenarios: while the gross gaming revenue is expected to decrease at a more stringent monopoly of currently 960 million euros to up to 580 million, they climbed at a controlled opening of the market with advertising and online sales of about 1.5 billion euros. Because developing these operations are the means for the free welfare work and the income that can provide the states for the grassroots and national sports associations, there may also be made of policy reasons in the opinion of FDP-man Dürr only one way, namely the of controlled liberalization. The issue gambling addiction was for the experts in the Düsseldorf Congress Center any more, this argument is refuted everywhere. Schalke 04-Peters Board therefore strongly urged a departure from the "shadow talk". That a market opening, a huge boost for the marketing of sports clubs in Germany bring, was also not in dispute. Sport Five-CEO Philip Hasenbein expects a number of additional sponsorships in Germany, when the market comes into being once in motion, and the revenue-not only in the soccer leagues. "Everyone is now really on the hole." Does this, many companies were willing to acquire a German license, including the worldwide leader in the online poker sector, PokerStars http://www.pokerstars.de, who has since submitted in all liberalized gaming market within the European Union a license.

However, this must also be accompanied by adequate and competitive tax rates, so the rounds on the sports conference. According to many experts here would be the so-called gross profit tax, the sensible option. "That is, we examine the operations of a company and paid the sum of the profits. The difference as the gross profit would be taxed," said the Munich lawyer Dr. Wulf Hambach http://www.timelaw.de. This look also had their first reading gambling law from Schleswig-Holstein. Hambach points out that the English Cabinet had adopted these days a bill to 25 percent gross tax on online sports betting and online poker. The recent plans to tax the amount of five percent of providers had led to threats to stay away from the English market. Clive Hawkswood, Chief Executive of the Remote Gambling Association, described the correction as a positive step. The view across the French border has been the most responsible, that the choking sales tax was not working.


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