The Guardian, a British daily, came out with an editorial criticizing the British reform gaming developments and the Gambling Commission's threatening regulatory hold to come into effect from the first of September.

Comments to the effect that the Commission currently employs some two hundred people, doubles the staff of the previous Gaming Board, the newspaper indicates that two of its first targeted workloads have vanished, and the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has removed the supercasinos and the globe's Internet poker, and that casino firms have rejected Britain's regulation invitations. 

According to the article, the way in which the Gambling Act is depicted by this last fact and shows how it has not succeeded even in submitting the least aims of the government.

Turning the United Kingdom into a pleasant location for Internet gambling operators was the principle idea involved. Being practical was Britain's plan and the operators would be related to as if they concurred on their responsibility and would be considered lawful concerns.

However, according to the column, this has not succeeded. Only fourteen Internet casino and poker operators have submitted requests for British authorization and almost no company from the middle center of business. A lucid reason is forthcoming and it is that no one wishes to pay on overall profits a British fifteen percent tax charge.

The article in the Guardian focuses on the limitless character of the global online gambling, and the fact that at virtually any location you can have computer servers powering websites.

You know what, Malta is surprisingly a favorite, due to the fact that to be allowed to advertise in the UK, an operator only has to be located in the European Economic Area. Malta has reduced tax charges to two and half percent, and according to the latest figures, two hundred gaming firms have submitted requests to operate there legally. The column exposes the fact that the officials of the Gambling Commission in Birmingham have been sidestepped.

The United Kingdom would be clever in reducing its tax rate to compete with Malta is the gambling world's opinion. And this will not occur, for it knows that the Daily Mail's headers would scream. In the conclusion of the author, there is one big muddle.

Posted on: September 13, 2007

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