Starting this month, casinos in Australia’s Northern Territory will pay a new tax on poker machines that would appreciably hike the government’s annual share.
According to Sky News Australia, the new tax imposed on SkyCity Casino in Darwin and Lasseters Hotel Casino in Alice Springs is expected to raise $8 million per year for the NT government, a huge increase on the $1.2 million generated in 2014.
The money will be added to the Community Benefit Levy, to which pubs and hotels already contribute.
