Tax on gambling to help pay for National Sport Center

The money was found thanks to changes to the gambling and betting bill. The budget will get zl.250 million from extra charges at the level of 10% imposed on private gambling. Moreover, only 80% of this money would go towards building the NCS, which means that the yearly amount allocated for the NCS would be in the order of zl.160-170 million. Representatives of the gambling industry find the idea of extra charges ridiculous. Marek Oleszczuk, the director of gambling and betting department in the Finance Ministry said that the bill will ruin the industry, and that the end result will  be lower than expected revenues from gambling. (Puls Biznesu p. 4-5) M.M.