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April 18, 2007 |
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Poland is preparing to institute regulations for the licensing and taxation of online gambling. According to The Warsaw Voice, the regulations will be similar to those in Italy, which recently opened national markets to a massive expansion of betting and a big boost to the public treasury. Polish law currently prohibits gambling on Web sites outside the country, although the number of sites doing business with Polish citizens has continued to rise. The Voice speculated that a combination of factors — the high cost of building and operating land-based casinos, statutory restrictions on advertising of casinos, mounting hostility to protectionism in the EU and the impact of last year’s online ban in the United States — have led policymakers to reconsider their stance. The new laws are expected to be implemented in full by September. —Staff Reports |
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