That was just the shop bets. Online usage has exploded over the past year, there’s a lot more to be brought in.

I’m open to correction but I think horse racing and dog racing will receive €56.29m in direct funding between them (see link), so the €27m raised doesn’t even cover this – which is disgraceful, IMO.

If I recall correctly, the tax used to be 10% but it was slashed due to ‘competition from the Internet’. If we can successfully tax Irish Internet gambling, then hopefully the tax can go back up.

http://www.agriculture.gov.ie/press/ministersspeeches/speechesbyministercoveney/2011/14december2011openingaddressbysimoncoveneytdministerforagriculturefoodandthemarinedrafthorseandgreyhoundracingfundregulations2011/

Wow! And I thought we were all piss-poor and children were going hungry to bed and the grannies were freezing in the garret, or on a hospital trolley, and that the badly-off could go abroad only twice a year nowadays! And that the town drunks were all born-again tay-drinkers!

Seems, as always, there is plenty of money to be frittered – but not to be wasted on food, clothes, heating, electricity, gas, and paying water-charges or such foolish spending! The usual topers are still in the pubs, pissing their dole. Maybe their children are hungry; and half-naked; doesn’t bother them though!

Long live the online Bookies; they are the best replacement we could ever have gotten for the absentee landlords of long ago! Sure now we send them hard cash instead of beef and wheat by the shipload.

Good man, Mickie Noonan, stick it to McCreevy’s pals!!

Betting is enormous here. About time it was properly taxed

The top 1% now earn almost 35% of the TOTAL INCOME in this country. They can afford to lose a tax break. The middle class cannot.

Noonan and the blueshirts want to cut the taxes of these 1-percenters to zero while he lays a huge national property tax on the middle class.

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FG’ers have decimated the middle class. Send them home in 2012.

peepingass. It is a massive recession we are experiencing here, what you seem to think was happening was that every single person had lost there job. Even in the Great Depression there was economic growth, many millionaires created.

Have no doubt that most of the people who are gambling online are in the 20′s, working, no mortgage, no family. That is the stats for most online gambling demographics.

The “no recession here” line doesn’t reflect reality.

Also, the rich need to be heavily taxed like in the 80′s.

It is, but it’s not new.

And what doe we have multitudes of in Dear Old Ireland? – you guessed right!!

He won’t do that – he is corrupt and unfit for office. Time for a new government for real change. I will be voting for the Socialists next time.

I don’t gamble so don’t know much about it but you’re right, didn’t most of these online sites move here from the US some years ago after being banned there, one of the Bush presidents did it I think. Some are based in Ireland, the Isle of Man, Jersey etc places like that. If pressured they’ll just up and move to a “friendlier country”, or at least their server will.

6-1 on, that the EU recognises that Ireland is breaking the rules. I’ll put a case of Pedigree Chum on that, plus tax of course. Woof. Course, I’ll get not only my winnings, but my tax back as well. Win Win.

Ireland still has fiscal sovereignty so no, there won’t be any challenge from the EU. It’s the same reason some states may huff and puff about our corporation tax rate but there’s nothing they can do about it.

Tax all gambling at 10%, minimum. They have been raping and pillaging our vulnerable for years.

@Ignoreland – yes Ireland has fiscal sovereignty. But it is not allowed to discriminate between EU citizens when applying those taxes.

He needs to raise taxes on the rich. He isn’t looking out for the bottom 97% of Irish people. FG promised jobs and more jobs if only they got the FF tax cuts, 1.5 years later and we all know they lied, but keep the millions in greed.

It was inevitable…

Well we are talking about gambling.

I’d say a fair few of their customers gambled foolishly too! Takes two – lender and borrower!

He removed the 90% tax on Bankers bonuses. Their money should stay in the private sector where it helps ALL of us, not just to pay for rich fat-cat corrupt politicians and the wealthy. There needs to be a wealth tax on high earners also.

WTF

damn you rob, i actually read that expecting a punch line!