Re: Big companies finally had enough of the excessive tax

20%? Is this even real ? Most of the companies not related to gambling pay lower than 10% but not the same in Kenya when it comes to the sports gambling. Now the biggest football clubs have joined hands to oppose this rule.

It's such a bad time to implement it but you can't blamer a government that wants to have money coming in times of pandemic, but one of their reasons to prohibit people from gambling is a bad one, if they don't want people to gamble in their country they should ban gambling, they really want to justify their additional taxes to these gambling companies, which is also suffering from this pandemic.

Online gambling is flourishing... I guess you wanted to say that land-based casinos suffered from this pandemic, but it's not completely true! They had a long break, but in my country, they are still working well, despite everything!

Whom else to blame than governments? Government should work for the people, not for big companies! Simple as that! But we have totally opposite situation in most parts of the world, where government officials are getting rich while they help big companies/corporations to earn more and more!

You mean to say that the physical casino in your country were not closed in the time of pandemic ? That's strange because the pandemic has the impact on the whole world and not a single country was safe from this virus. The countries who didn't applied the early lockdown , later had to pay the price when patients affected from covid19 rise to the alarming numbers.

would love to see comparison data on all countries number of cases x lockdown duration x lockdown start date.

but still, wouldn't be surprised to know some countries had casinos open, specially countries where lobby is strong, in Brazil they reopened churches before schools
many messed up things going on in Politics

I would not be surprised of this as well, we must remember that some economic sectors are very strong and as such have influence over the policies governments can take and they can change them to their favor, so it would not be surprising that in a country where the gambling industry was strong and politicians accepted bribes the physical casinos remained open for longer or were not even closed on the first place, for example where I live all businesses were open before schools showing how little the government cares about the education of the children.