{"id":56776,"date":"2023-04-11T06:39:46","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T06:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/04\/11\/bettors-oppose-newly-introduced-10-tax-on-bet-wins\/"},"modified":"2023-04-11T06:39:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T06:39:46","slug":"bettors-oppose-newly-introduced-10-tax-on-bet-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/04\/11\/bettors-oppose-newly-introduced-10-tax-on-bet-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Bettors oppose newly introduced 10% tax on bet wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Bettors are expressing displeasure at the government\u2019s plan to levy taxes on lottery and sports betting.<\/p>\n<p>As part of efforts to raise additional revenue for the country, government slapped taxes on income from lottery, betting and gambling.<\/p>\n<p>According to several local bettors, the government\u2019s move is an attempt to prevent them from enjoying their winnings in peace.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, they urged the government to reconsider its plans to take a 10% withholding tax from winnings in lotteries, sports betting, and games of chance at the point of payout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could lose all my bets in a year so if I should win one day and then 10 percent is deducted, it actually means that I have lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, it is not fair. We are suffering because the system is not any better so taking away 10 percent of my bet wins is not a good thing\u201d, another said.<\/p>\n<p>For one of the gamblers, \u201cThis policy of taxing our fortunes in betting is not in our interest. 10 percent of our wins is too much for us. \u201c<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bettors are expressing displeasure at the government\u2019s plan to levy taxes on lottery and sports betting. As part of efforts to raise additional revenue for the country, government slapped taxes on income from lottery, betting and gambling. According to several local bettors, the government\u2019s move is an attempt to prevent them from enjoying their winnings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bettors oppose newly introduced 10% tax on bet wins - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/04\/11\/bettors-oppose-newly-introduced-10-tax-on-bet-wins\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bettors oppose newly introduced 10% tax on bet wins - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bettors are expressing displeasure at the government\u2019s plan to levy taxes on lottery and sports betting. 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