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In the year 2018/19 Rank paid £191.1m (2017/18: £187.8m) to tax authorities and local governments in irrecoverable VAT, gambling taxes, corporate tax, employer’s national insurance and local business rates. Rank has provided employment to approximately 8,400 (2017/18: 10,000) people across the Group. The broader impact of Rank’s operations, including taxes paid by supplier companies, is harder to quantify but no less significant.
Gaming duty/ Gross profits tax | |
Mecca | |
Category B3 gaming machines | 20% |
Category C gaming machines | 20% |
Category D gaming machines | 5% |
Main stage bingo | 10% |
Interval bingo | 10% |
meccabingo.com1 | 21% |
Grosvenor casinos | |
Casino games and poker (tax on gaming win in a six-month period) |
15% – £0 to £2,423.5k |
20% – £2,423.5k to £4,094k | |
30% – £4,094k to £7,019.5k | |
40% – £7,019.5k to £13,195k | |
50% – over £13,195k | |
Category B1 gaming machines | 20% |
grosvenorcasinos.com1 | 21% |
1 Rank’s online business is based offshore (Alderney, Channel Islands) and has been subject to UK remote gaming duty with effective from 1 December 2014
Spanish tax regime
Bingo duty1 | Remote Gaming Duty2 | Licence (annual average) | |
Bingo tax set by region | 5% to 25% | – | – |
Category B2/3 gaming machines | – | – | €3,650 |
Multi-post electronics | – | – | €10,600 |
enracha.es and YoBingo.es | – | 20% | – |
1 Calculated as a percentage of stake
2 20% with effect from 1 July 2018
Belgian tax regime
Gaming duty | |
Table games | 33% – €0 to €865k |
44% – over €865k | |
Electronic roulette / amusement machines | 20% – €0 to €1,200k |
25% – €1,200k to €2,450k | |
30% – €2,450k to €3,700k | |
35% – €3,700k to €6,150k | |
40% – €6,150k to €8,650k | |
45% – €8,650k to €12,350k | |
50% – over €12,350k |
THE RANK GROUP PLC