Kaughasartmängu korraldajad maksid annetustena pool miljonit eurot

Kaughasartmängu korraldajad maksid annetustena pool miljonit eurot

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Online gambling organizers paid half a million euros in donations

Neljaks ettevõte on kandnud annetuse ile otse ja neli ettevõtet rahandusministeeriumi kontole. Kokku on annetatud umbes 497 000 eurot. Kui lisada , on kokku laekunud umbes 637 000 eurot.
Kuigi annetas kaheksa ettevõtet, on Eestis 41 kaughasartmängu korraldajat. Neist 14 kuulub Eesti Hasartmängude Korraldajate Liitu.
Kui seadus oleks kehtinud, oleks riik võinud teenida ligi kaks miljonit eurot. Praegu on annetatud natuke üle veerandi sellest summast. Rahandusministeeriumi asekantsler Evelyn Liivamägi rääkis, et ta ei lootnud, et annetusi tuleb sama palju kui maksu.
Millised ettevõtted annetasid, Liivamägi esialgu välja ei ütle. Veast põjustatud puudujääk .
Hasartmängukorraldajate liit on öelnud, et kõik nende liikmed tahavad annetusi teha, kuid seda pole veel juhtunud. Nad on veel aega, et annetusi teha.
Maksu puudumisest tingitud puudujääk selgub Liivamägi sõnul aasta lõpuks. Kui kaug u langetuse eestvedajate plaanid toimivad, peaks riik saama rohkem raha kui prognoositud.
Hasartmängumaksude tulust elatuva i laekumised selgub samuti aasta lõpus. Kui i raha jääb väiksemaks, siis valitsus kaaneb selle vahe.
Annetuste lõppsumma selgub märtsi lõpuks. Märtsist alates maksavad maksu 5,5-protsendilises määras. Seega on neilt märtsi keskpaigaks oodatud annetused ka i eest.
Infot selle kohta, kes kaug u korraldajatest annetuse teeb ja kes ei tee, pole täpselt teada ka Eesti hasartmängude korraldajate liidu direktoril Tõnis Rüütlil.
Hasartmängumaksu e eelnõu kiideti 2025. aasta detsembris riigikogus heaks. Jaanuari alguses selgus, et selles on , mistõttu oli kaug null. Veebruaris õnnestus seadus siiski ära parandada.
Riigieelarves eeldas rahandusministeerium, et tänavu oleks võinud kaug u laekuda 27 miljonit eurot. Esimestel kuudel võinuks laekumine ministeeriumi hinnangul olla neli miljonit eurot, kui seaduses viga poleks olnud.
Four companies have made donations directly to the Cultural Endowment, and four companies have made donations to the Ministry of Finance's account. In total, approximately 497,000 euros have been donated. When income tax is added, the total amount collected is about 637,000 euros.
Although eight companies made donations, there are 41 online gambling organizers in Estonia. Of these, 14 belong to the Estonian Gambling Organizers Association.
If the law had been in effect, the state could have earned nearly two million euros. Currently, a little over a quarter of that amount has been donated. Evelyn Liivamägi, Deputy Chancellor of the Ministry of Finance, said she did not expect donations to be as much as taxes.
Which companies made donations, Liivamägi initially did not disclose. The shortfall caused by the error will be clarified at the end of the year.
The Gambling Organizers Association has stated that all its members want to make donations, but this has not yet happened. They still have time to make donations.
The shortfall due to the absence of taxes will be clarified by the end of the year, according to Liivamägi. If the plans of the proponents of reducing online gambling tax work, the state should receive more money than forecasted.
The contributions to the Cultural Endowment from gambling tax revenues will also be clarified at the end of the year. If the Cultural Endowment's funds are smaller, the government will cover the difference.
The final amount of donations will be clarified by the end of March. From March onwards, online gambling organizers will pay tax at a rate of 5.5%. Therefore, donations are also expected from them by mid-March for tax-free February.
Information on which online gambling tax organizers have made donations and which have not is not precisely known even to Tõnis Rüütli, director of the Estonian Gambling Organizers Association.
The draft amendment to the Gambling Tax Act was approved by the Riigikogu in December 2025. At the beginning of January, it turned out that there was a typo in it, which resulted in online gambling tax being zero. In February, the law was successfully amended.
In the state budget, the Ministry of Finance assumed that this year's online gambling tax revenue could be 27 million euros. In the first few months, the revenue could have been four million euros, according to the ministry's estimate, if there had been no error in the law.