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Sports BettingG3 Newswire · 3h ago

Plans to double Machine Games Duty would damage British jobs, local communities, and high streets

By Phil MartinJuly 3, 2026

The brief

Report relies on technical assumptions that don’t reflect the realities of the UK’s land-based betting and gaming market The Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) has rejected calls by the Social Market Foundation (SMF) to double Machine Games Duty (MGD), warning the report fails to properly assess the impact its proposals…

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G3 Newswire

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