Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) Archives

Betting and Gaming Council (BGC)

betting shop closure, which the BGC is warning of en-masse should MGD rise to 40%

Time to read: 3 min

BGC lambasts calls by 90 MPs to raise UK betting tax as “deeply misguided”

October 19, 2026

UK bookies who are calling for a pause on GBD increase

Time to read: 3 min

BGC’s big hitters ask for pause on UK general betting tax hike

October 15, 2026

Identity crisis

Time to read: 5 min

UK gambling’s tax argument has a split personality problem

October 13, 2026

A UK Grosvenor Casino closing, as the BGC warns of further closures should MGD rise

Time to read: 3 min

BGC goes for the jugular in stark warning to government over mass job cuts

October 12, 2026

Betting and Gaming Council (BGC), which is against a sector-wide ad ban

Time to read: 3 min

BGC: “Complete ban on advertising will not make gambling disappear”

September 15, 2026

Premier League ball, as the BGC claims £1bn will be spent on the black market in the PL next season

Time to read: 3 min

BGC claims UK black market will take £1bn in Premier League bets next season

August 24, 2026

Betting and Gaming Council (BGC), which is against a sector-wide ad ban

Time to read: 4 min

BGC backs DCMS consultation but agrees with Entain’s calls for immediate action

Money being exchanged under the shade, symbolic of black market gaming sites like 'non-Gamstop' casinos

Time to read: 3 min

Illegal market supply claims questioned by UK trade body

A roundtable

Time to read: 4 min

BGC extends open invitation for black market dialogue to tech firms

Handshake, representing the BGC hiring a Director of Strategic Delivery

Time to read: 3 min

BGC appoints new Director as it looks to weather gambling sector storm in the UK

Time to read: 3 min

BGC urges MPs to “pause” before slandering adverts

A UK government building, the government having just set up a black market gambling taskforce

Time to read: 4 min

Is the British gov’t making good on its black market gambling crackdown promise?

January 30, 2026

ComeOn named latest member to join Dutch body VNLOK

Time to read: 2 min

UK trade body takes active role in Chile’s online regulation

January 22, 2026

podcast

Time to read: 5 min

SBC on the Airwaves: UK takes centre stage

December 29, 2025

Balancing

Time to read: 3 min

UK gambling nets full cooperation for Safer Gambling Week

November 17, 2025

PwC warns gambling tax hike will lead to survival of the fittest

Time to read: 3 min

Gambling tax hike will have knock-on consequences, PwC warns

November 14, 2025

Treasury Committee report points to iGaming tax hike

Time to read: 3 min

Game over for iGaming in latest Treasury Committee report

November 7, 2025

Time to read: 4 min

Reeves’ tax culling might spare horse’s head

November 3, 2025

10 Downing Street, where the potential betting tax raises will be announced next month

Time to read: 6 min

MPs appear unconvinced by UK gambling's case against tax hikes

October 28, 2025

A photograph of racing horses

Time to read: 3 min

BGC makes another case against betting duty hike

August 20, 2025

British racehorses and jockeys, which will be on strike on 10 September, in a black and white photo

Time to read: 6 min

UK racing plans strike to protest tax hikes and betting sector isn’t happy

August 18, 2025

House of Commons, where the Shadow Cabinet sits, with Westminster Bridge over the River Thames in foreground

Time to read: 5 min

Former Gambling Act review stewards take on Shadow Cabinet roles

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