Given the slowdown in the process of gambling regulation in the Province of Buenos Aires, it is now the City of Buenos Aires itself that has enabled companies and individuals who wish to obtain a license to regulate their activities. The new regulated gambling market in the City is expected to be operational from October. From the Association of Personnel of Racecourses, Agencies, Gambling and Related (APHARA) it is believed that the implementation of the online game endangers 500 to 2000 jobs.
The goodbye of the former governor of the Province of Buenos Aires, María Eugenia Vidal, has slowed down the project for the regulation of gambling, which had already had an official tender period. In fact, his departure served to make the city of Buenos Aires decide to advance on its own in the idea of ??taxing gaming platforms. In this way, it is expected that the City will enable new licenses for online games. These licenses may be acquired by companies and individuals who wish to do so.
So currently, beyond the licenses of the Province, it will be Lotba (Lottery of the city of Buenos Aires) responsible for this new process that is framed in a calendar that expects that in October the operators may already be operating legally and taxing before the local administration.
Given this process, the face-to-face sector shows great concern. For example, APHARA, the union that frames the racetrack workers, entered a state of alert because they assure that the government established conditions that in the long run will end up liquidating the "face-to-face game" that the Palermo Racecourse and the floating casinos of Puerto Madero: "If the physical game is reduced by 20%, the number of employees is going to fall by 20 or 30%. There are 540 jobs in the City, but the rest are in a weak situation. Because the fees do not drop to the physical gaming companies and the risk ends up being for everyone: the 2,000 jobs are in check, "explained the head of APHARA, Diego Quiroga.
"Physical gaming has twice the tax burden than online gaming. Today it has a 76% tax: the profitability of physical gaming companies narrows and it is convenient for them to go online. It is a totally unfair competition, you have an operating structure completely different. And they can end up leaving 1970 people on the street, "added Quiroga.
In 2018, when the capital's parliament advanced with the modification of the regulations to enable online games, it was a business of more than 6 billion pesos, of which the City could raise around 350 million, 5.83 % of the total, a figure that several opponents considered laughable, especially for the damage it can cause.
Source:
La Política Online
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