BGC Slams Gordon Brown on the hiking plan of the game tax in the United Kingdom supported by IPPR -

The United Kingdom Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) targeted former Prime Minister Gordon Brown for supporting proposals aimed at increasing the game tax in order to raise funds to fight against children’s poverty.

Brown spoke publicly to support a report by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), while the reflection group urged the current British chancellor, Rachel Reeves, to engage in a significant change in policy which would increase approximately 3 billion pounds Sterling ($ 4 billion) per year.

These IPPR claims were shot dead by the BGC, which described suggestions as “everything except thought”.

The industry organization stressed that the figures used were incorrect. It was said that the sector increases 2.5 billion pounds sterling tax per year, but the figure was corrected at 4 billion pounds Sterling.

Especially for the betting industry, The comment of the CEO of BGC, Grainne Hurst,continued in detail the key political decision implemented by Brown, as Chancellor, more than two decades ago.

He described his position taken last week as “a vast gap compared to Brown’s own solutions on Paris and play taxes when he was in charge of public finances.

“For a long time, greeted as a master stroke, his interventions have increased more taxes, obtained more jobs and created one of the world successes in this country.”

This is a reference to the decision to explain the practice of the application of the tax to betting betting, which had a direct impact on the behavior of bettors. Once the tax is more added to the challenges, players started to bet more.

"Too many politicians take an objection from snobbings to people who love a bet," Writes the CEO of BGC Grainne Hurst in today @Telegraph. But with 22.5 million adults in Great Britain betting each month – extremely safely – it is time that they have started to listen to them. pic.twitter.com/ywylkfduog

– Paris and games advice (@BetgameCouncil) August 12, 2025

Naive tax plans and political size will not help

The BGC indicates that the amounts increased from 27 billion pounds Sterling ($ 37 billion) to nearly 53 billion pounds Sterling ($ 72 billion), with a significant direct advantage of collecting more taxes, overall.

They then targeted a spicy attack on “Think Tanks for Hire, such as social market foundation and IPPR, (which) are in bed with anti-creative prohibitionists who simply do not like our industry.”

Then, the BGC underlined a contradiction with the organizations wishing to see fewer people play, but to base their research and report recommendations on the existing figures.

“How can you reduce the number of people in Paris and increase taxes simultaneously?”, Pose the advice.

The answer ended with sharp political questions for the current British government and the defense of the Paris industry. The BGC insisted that it wanted to play its role to help stimulate economic growth, but “naive tax plans and political greatness will help any of this”.

Image credit: BGC

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