Unibet settles Spanish back-taxes
Operator to pay one-off fee of 3.2m based on activities from January 2009-May 2011.
Unibet has agreed to pay a one-off fee of 3.2m (£2.6m) following discussions with Spanish tax authorities, relating to back-taxes for the operator’s activities in the market between January 2009 and May 2011.
The operator withdrew from the Spanish market ahead of the issuing of dot.es licences in June this year, and confirmed in a statement that it “Did not apply for a B2C gaming licence under the new Spanish gaming law and does not currently target the Spanish market.”
It has however launched B2C offerings in other regulated markets, obtaining an F1+ sports betting licence in Belgium and undergoing a cautious re-entry into the French market following its acquisition of Solfive last year.
However its B2B subsidiary Kambi Sports Solutions has been active in the Spanish market, agreeing to supply its sports betting solution to land-based operators Grupo Acrismatic and Egasa Group.
A number of dot.es licensees had already committed to back-tax payments before the country’s regulator DGOJ issued the first egaming licences in June.
Bwin.party’s 33m was the highest sum paid by a listed operator, while Sportingbet paid 17.2m and Betfair’s outlay reached “not more than 10m.”