In The News Chancellor to Hammer High St. Adult Gaming Centres?

[dunover]

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As predictably Labour strive to balance the books to pay for their vote-buying profligacy while the nation remains virtually undefended, it has been suggested those High St. 'Entertainment' Centres operated by Rank and Merkur etc. may be hammered with a 100% tax rise. Presently they pay 20% and 40% has been mooted, which will make the scamming low-RTP crap even more unplayable and players more desperate with greater cost to them.

(Read the above BBC News article section 2)

So go to @ChopleyIOM 's thread where he gets twatted for £300? in 30 minutes on 92% B3's which triggers his quitting slots. There was a small possibility that on another day he may have won, if this tax goes ahead and is inevitably funded by lower RTP, losing becomes practically a certainty, for every player on every occasion.

It won't affect the IoM where international money laundering and tax avoidance/evasion basically funds the place, but in the UK it would devastate the games. Also note the siting of these legalised scamming shops, prosperous areas have one or none, the pov areas have 5-10 or even more. We have 2 here in a town of 100,000 people as not quite as prosperous as those places in Surrey quoted, but I think even that's too many.

 

[SYPlayer95]

Wouldnt lose any sleep if they all got shut down, they are scum on the high street, I do, however, make money from these places, so every cloud and all that.

 

[Mr Shine]

Wouldnt lose any sleep if they all got shut down, they are scum on the high street, I do, however, make money from these places, so every cloud and all that.

Same here. For me personally, the one in town is a net earner, due to silly cash match offers. However there's no way that their remain can be a net benefit, too many people just losing all their money.

 

[SYPlayer95]

Same here. For me personally, the one in town is a net earner, due to silly cash match offers. However there's no way that their remain can be a net benefit, too many people just losing all their money.

100% mate. Even on their shitty RTPs it's money in our pockets. So for those who just straight up gamble in there, God help them.

 

[geordiecolin]

They fleece the vulnerable and deserve to be banished from the highstreet. They should ban them from bingo halls and pubs while they are at it. Bravo I say