Companies awaiting approval
PokerStars and Betfair keen on Bulgarian online market
2014-01-30
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(Bulgaria).- PokerStars and Betfair are officially seeking to participate in Bulgaria’s regulated online gambling market. The two companies, along with Eurofootball Bulgaria, have expressed renewed interest ever since legislators voted in December to change the country’s online gambling tax regime from 15% of turnover to 20% of gross gaming revenue.
The companies’ applications are currently being vetted by the State Commission on Gambling, meaning Malta-licensed EuroFootball (efbet.com) may finally have company on the extremely short list of operators currently approved to accept online wagers.
It was only six months ago that PokerStars had its domains added to Bulgaria’s infamous blacklist of unapproved operators. Bulgaria tweaked its blacklist yet again last week, adding four domains belonging to Gibraltar-licensed 32Red and a lone site from Italian sports betting operator BetFlag. Bulgaria was also in a forgiving mood, removing French poker site Winamax on the grounds that the operator had “discontinued its offence” by withdrawing its services from Bulgaria’s digital realm.
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