Monday, July 9, 2007

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Sweden targets poker sites for taxation

By Sarah Polson

There's millions of kronors of revenue from poker and other online gambling that's not being declared, and Sweden's tax board is planning to find it and claim it.

According to a report by The Local, poker sites and poker affiliates sites are going to be targeted by Skatteverket for possible tax evasion in Sweden. The tax board is preparing to tax the owners of poker sites and then possibly prosecute poker site owners for tax evasion.

Dag Hardyson, national project leader for the tax board's Internet unit, said they aren't after individual poker players, but the companies that provide the service and also affiliate sites that make money from guiding people to online poker sites.

The Local said the tax board's calculations showed that hundreds of Swedes have set up poker-related sites on the Internet that attract players and send them on to sites to play poker at. The sites get paid for their referrals to the poker sites.

"For some the income can be several million kronor," Hardyson said in The Local.

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