Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) Archives

Betting and Gaming Council (BGC)

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

An image of HMRC rax forms and pound coins and notes, symbolising betting tax

Time to read: 4 min

BGC CEO bangs the drum on betting tax and racing’s finance woes

horseracing track

Time to read: 4 min

BGC: Increased gambling tax would bolster the dangerous black market

UK Economy

Time to read: 3 min

BGC says UK economic growth must not come at expense of gambling

A photograph of racing horses

Time to read: 4 min

Racing and betting voice concerns around tax raise but share differing views

BGC advises caution on new unified tax regime

Time to read: 2 min

Grainne Hurst warns govt to consider ‘catastrophic’ tax regime

Grand National could lose £10m in bets to illegal operators

Time to read: 2 min

BGC says global appeal could cost Grand National £10m in illegal bets

horse racing

Time to read: 2 min

BGC secures third sponsorship of Leicester Veterans’ Raceday

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