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| Online casinos
to become legal in France: |
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year online casinos are set to become legal in the European country
of France, according to the latest reports. Following the pressure
from the European Union, combined with the decreasing revenues from
online gambling by the France monopoly gambling company PMU, the
local government has decided to begin handing out licenses to online
casinos, sports betting firms and poker rooms in 2010. Taxes will be
collected from the online casinos which are granted license to
operate in France, depending on the gambling form and will vary from
2% to 7.5%. Gambling at the thousands of online casinos serving
French players is currently considering illegal, although according
to the French authorities, over 75% of all online gambling in the
country goes through those gambling websites, leaving a small piece
of the pay for the state-owned PMU. At this time the prerequisites
online casinos must meet to be granted license in France remain
unknown.
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