Recently many countries around the world are now introducing gambling taxation on it citizens and even charging betting houses and casino's some amount of money to operate within it jurisdiction, and recently my country just introduced a 5% Revenue sharing and taking from both betting houses and gambler's winning and this news make me to ask why the government takes such money from gambler's but won't protect the gambler when their is troubles with the betting house.
Because we have loads of cases where gambler's win some huge amount of money and the casino refusing to pay and when reported to the authority you here such things like the casino is not licenced by them or they don't have control over the casino case, the government is only interested in the tax and not protecting the interest of it citizens.
I'm not sure which of the country you are talking about but recently the Nigerian government are in move to tax bettors and I'm sure that the Nigerian government has a regulation in place for casino. There is a regulatory board that licensed casino and betting companied and code of conduct regarding casino but what I don't really support is the taxing of bettors. This government is so useless that they don't even care about an average person but there pocket yet do little for the citizens.
The government see that youths are making money from gambling and I don't even blame the government for that but the people who are winning and can't keep it to their self, brag on social media just for validation and the govern government see the money as a way to get more from citizens. If indeed they are paying tax and all others things, I'm sure they will keep the winnings from online so government doesn't have to take their cut from the winnings.