In the year 2021/22 Rank paid £171.5m (2020/21: £121.0m) 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 7,600 (2020/21: 7,500) 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.
You can read further details of Rank's published tax strategy here.
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% |
Grosvenor Casinos | |
Casino games and poker (tax on gaming win in a six-month period) |
15% – £0 to £2,686k |
20% – £2,686k to £4,538k | |
30% – £4,538k to £7,781k | |
40% – £7,781k to £14,626k | |
50% – over £14,626k | |
Category B1 gaming machines | 20% |
Digital | |
meccabingo.com* | 21% |
grosvenorcasinos.com* | 21% |
Sportsbook | 15% |
* Rank’s online business is based offshore (Gibraltar) and is subject to UK and Gibraltar remote gaming duty
Spanish tax regime
Bingo duty1 | Remote Gaming Duty | Licence (annual average) | |
Bingo tax set by region | 3.75% to 15% | – | – |
Category B2/3 gaming machines | – | – | €4,610 |
Multi-post electronics | – | – | €19,540 |
enracha.es and YoBingo.es | – | 20% | – |
1 Calculated as a percentage of stake