Football Pools: Taxation
(asked on 16th May 2019) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the appropriateness of the level of tax on the football pools industry.
This question was answered on 23rd May 2019
Pool Betting Duty raises around £5m in revenue for the Exchequer per annum. Reducing the level of taxation is likely to have a negligible effect on the football pools.