What % betting tax after budget.

in the grand scheme of things betting tax is small potatoes

would they even bother raising it- the only way to get at online gambling is ban it, which they wouldnt do(they might threaten it to make betfair and powers pay a few more yo yos to HRI)

for betting shops if they upped the tax and dropped the dole, well i'd imagine 60%of them would close down over night- no bad thing i suppose as there are far too many of them but we'd be just left with powers and laddies

no change

no change

Now the goverment owns shares in the bank they could now make a law forbidding Irish banks to have tranactions with bookmakers on the internet who don't have a Irish licence. Like they do in America, Switzerland and Holland.

In that way they could force bookmakers to pay a internet tax every year. Otherwise its be left to just telling bookmakers they would increase the shop tax unless they voluntary agreed to pay a internet tax of some sort.

Most of the bookmakers now just use there shops for marketing their internet brand now. As they can't be doing it for what there making from those shops. And internet users find it harder to trust companies that they don't see already operating in the high street.

But I'm just guessing but it would seem unlikely they let bookmakers off the hook again and then also reduce social welfare payements.

It could well turn out the straw that broke the camels back if they did imo....Cheers