Casinos generate direct employment for 8,000 people in the country
Ecuadorian Bingo and Casino Association against an eventual gaming ban
2011-03-09
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Wilson Palacios, President of ASCAB, said the casinos generate direct employment for 8,000 people and indirectly to 32,000 more, employees’ family members, and considers that eliminating the business would be a detrimental to all staff who are trained for the work, and could not work in another activity.
Pedro Sanchez, Manager of the Casino Monte Carlo, said that besides the people who would lose their jobs with the closure of casinos, the Treasury would no longer receive about US$ 20 million in VAT and other taxes, and additionally cease to provide 35 million to Social Security.
Sanchez said that in the country there are 2,000 legally registered gaming machines and approximately 7,000 illegal, so they are afraid that a ban on the game opens a side business in secret, as has happened in countries like Russia, for example.
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