Estonia: Coalition MPs want to make Estonia “remote gambling paradise”

MPs from two parties in Estonia’s current coalition government have drafted a bill to cut the gambling tax, ERR reports. The group of MPs from the Estonian Reform Party and Estonia 200 proposed cutting the gambling tax by 0.5 percentage points every year to 4% by 2029. They argued that the tax cut could, in fact, boost revenue used to fund sports and culture. Reform MP Madis Timpson, chairman of the legal affairs committee of the Estonian parliament, the Riigikogu, explained that one of the goals was to make Estonia a “remote gambling paradise,” attracting foreign gaming operators. Meanwhile, MP Andrei Korobeinik of the opposition Estonian Centre Party, said that the bill’s authors had “believed the lobbyists.”