Footing the bill: are operators paying for the UKGC’s regulatory shortcomings?
Is the Gambling Commission doing enough to justify a potential 55% licence fee increase for online operators? Lawyers and legal experts have their say
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Clifton Davies director David Clifton
comment a fortnight earlier that the industry has exaggerated the impact of the illegal marketNorthridge Law partner Melanie Ellis
The proposed fees would give the Commission around an additional £7m per year from 2022 and it is difficult to understand how meeting the challenges it sets out will cost so much – Melanie Ellis, Northridge Law
Keystone Law partner Richard Williams
These are quite astronomical increases – how would we react if our Councils announced that due to budget shortfalls, our Council tax would go up by 60%? – Richard Williams, Keystone Law