The country of Brazil is steadily working towards launching new gambling and sports betting services. As the industry is being set up, the federal government is reportedly working on ways to ensure that foreign businesses pay domestic taxes.

According to reports, government officials are backing a measure that will force any foreign operator to create a localized office in Brazil. This step will ensure that a higher tax income is made and payments will be received by the government.

Ensuring Domestic Taxes

Last February, the Chamber of Deputies approved Bill 442/91 to set a 17% tax rate for all gambling categories. One downside to the bill was that license holders would be exempt from paying domestic taxes within municipal services, employer taxes, federal social assis…

The Supervisory Board of the Groupe Partouche released the report of the first half-year audited accounts. The report contained information from November 2022 to April 2023, and it was submitted by the Groupe Partouche Executive Board.

Great improvements:

The results were announced during the meeting held in Paris on June 27th. 

Overall, the results were good, and a significant improvement was noticed after the last health measures were lifted in February and March last year. 

As a consequence of lifting the measures, the Gross Gam…

An independent inquiry with “wide-ranging powers” is set to investigate the New South Wales greyhound racing industry following recent concerns about animal welfare within the sector. The inquiry will be led by the Greyhound Welfare Integrity Commission (GWIC) and headed by acting commissioner Lea Drake.

A comprehensive investigation into complaints:

Gaming and Racing Minister David Harris announced that the inquiry would address multiple complaints surrounding Greyhound Racing NSW (GRNSW), encompassing track safety, animal welfare, and operational practices. Ms. Drake is tasked with reporting her findings to Minister Harris by December 13.

As the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports, this inquiry comes on the heels of Rob Macaulay&#82…

Director and executive producer of the upcoming Amazon Fallout TV series, Jonathan Nolan, has been catching some flak from fans for comments he made at a recent press event. As reported by T3, Nolan was chatting about his approach to the upcoming show when he remarked: “I don’t think you really can set out to please the fans of anything, or please anyone other than yourself.” Deliberately trying to make a Fallout TV series that would please fans of the games, said Nolan, would be a “fool’s errand.”

Well, more than a few fans of the Fallout games heard those quotes out of context and didn’t like them at all. Take a saunter through social media and it’s not hard to find Fallout fans irate at the apparent disregard Nolan has for them.

But that wasn’t all Nolan said. In…

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s investigation into Activision Blizzard has ended with a $35 million payment to the SEC to settle charges that Activision Blizzard violated government rules for the protection of whistleblowers and for failure to disclose information to investors. The settlement’s terms state that it is neither an admission of guilt, nor a denial, by Activision Blizzard.

The SEC’s investigation started in 2021, when the state of California’s Civil Rights Department filed a lawsuit against Activision Blizzard over a pervasive culture of sexual harassment. That lawsuit’s allegations prompted an investigation from both the SEC and the United States’ Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The EEOC investigation ended in a lawsuit which was settled for $18…

A new report from Bloomberg Businessweek covers the investigation and arrest of a pedophile who used the Roblox gaming platform to groom his victim, before abducting and sexually assaulting her multiple times. The man assumed various identities on Roblox but was best-known as the creator of a profitable Sonic the Hedgehog fan game on the platform, a position that gave him considerable clout within the Roblox community, and one which he used to prey upon its young users.

DoctorRofatnik created Sonic Eclipse Online, a game where Roblox users could race as Sonic and friends, and it proved unsurprisingly popular with the young audience. As is typical of the platform’s experiences, users could buy costumes and trinkets with Robux, and DoctorRofatnik claimed to be one of the be…