EU slams Greece over casino discrimination
Casino entry is taxed at 80 % of the ticket price in public and private casinos, but as private casinos are required by law to charge us$ 21 compared to just six euros for public casinos, “the different fiscal treatment provides an advantage available only to the state-owned casinos”, the commission added.
Brussels noted that private casino operators are invariably international hotel groups, “whose decisions to invest or divest can be affected by the selective measure”.
The European Union executive, which is currently demanding that the bailed-out Greek government push through some 50 billion euros worth of state sell-offs, ordered the recovery of what it said amounts to “incompatible aid” going back to 1999. The sums to be recovered remain unclear, it added.
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