Online vs Brick & Mortar

[Pokerface]

I came across an interesting article today regarding online gambling versus brick and mortar sites in Pennsylvania. The original debate was around the fact that online gambling would result in lower tax revenues as players moved from brick and mortar sites to online that is taxed at a much lesser amount.

The article suggests that those in physical locations are not fully aware of the tax differential is not really noticed compared to online sites. What is really interesting is that we forget about is that the brick and mortar locations have many other means of generating revenue at a lower taxed rate such as hotel reservations, food, beverages, retail, entertainment and much more.

Let’s face it the demographics of online players is much different than those that visit physical casinos and the shifts will continue. How long will the argument be valid.

You can read the full article here: http://www.playpennsylvania.com/pa-o...ditive-impact/

[Triple7]

It doesn't bite each other too much in my opinion. Online gamblers are having their reasons to gamble online, just like landbased gamblers have their reasons to gamble in a landbased casino.

But, taxing one for 59% and the other for 16% sounds a bit strange.