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Pokies tax grab

May 24, 2006 on 1:42 pm | In Slot machine overviews |

Do you sometimes wonder why you can lose so much playing the pokies? Its not actually the fault of the machines - they just do what their regulator tells them they must do, and the results are usually engineered to line the pockets of your government as much as possible:

“VICTORIA pockets about $33,000 a year in tax from each Victorian poker machine, almost twice as much as any other state.”

Herald Sun

The $33,000 figure is not what each machine wins in a year - its just the governments cut. They actually make a fair bit of money for the venue they reside in as well. Multiply that amount by almost 30,000 machines present in that state and it represents a major windfall for the state.