Chilean casinos warn of unequal tax treatment under online betting bill

Cecilia Valdés, president of Chile’s Association of Casinos and Games (ACCJ), has welcomed the government’s latest proposals for regulating online gambling but warned that significant differences in the treatment of land-based and digital operators remain unresolved. The legislation, currently undergoing its second stage of consideration in the Senate, would introduce a 19 per cent VAT and an additional three per cent tax for online operators. It also proposes a transitional arrangement allowing companies to operate following a one-off payment of 3,000 monthly tax units (UTM), equivalent to approximately US$190,000.