Brazil: Bingos are expected to be legalized this year

According to the representative, the vote meeting should probably be held soon after the elections, due to the pressure of political parties DEM and PSDB to withdraw the urgency of the project. The writer, however, does not have doubts that the bingo legalization will be approved in the plenary, due to the support that the measure obtained in the Commission of Constitution and Justice and Citizenship (CCJ).

The text of Regis de Oliveira anticipates that bingo halls will have to pay the Union and the states a 17% of the reserves, once prizes have been discounted, allocating 15% for health; 1% for culture and 1% for investments in sports. On top of taxes, bingos will have to pay a monthly control fee of us$ 10,940, with the obligation of having online programs connected to the tax control entities. The writer thinks that gaming legalization may generate 250,000 new jobs.

The author of the original proposal, Representative Antonio Carlos Mendes Thame (PSDB-SP) is against Regis de Oliveira report. Mendes Thame project wanted just the opposite: to ban the bingo practice in the country.

According to Mendes Thame, this type of gaming generates a social problem and it is necessary to generate more debate on the matter. “We aim to listen to public promoters, doctors and relatives, in order to show the reality of people with gambling problems. These individuals have their own patrimony and their own emotional health committed,” he remarked.