Peru’s Council of Ministers has approved a bill to amend the law for the exploitation of casino games and slot machines. José Luis Silva Martinot, the Minister for Foreign Trade and Tourism, made the announcement that now the bill would be presented to Congress.
Silva said that the proposed law seeks to formalise the information from casino and slots operations under supervision via Internet to enable greater tax collection from these businesses. “There exist some 800 locations operating slot machines and by formalising the information it is expected to increase tax collection significantly.” He added, “In this manner it will be possible to instantly keep track of the quantities of money being gambled and the number of operations.”
The previous law, enacted in July 2002, established a unified system of real time control (SUCTR), which has been postponed until July next year. This gave all casinos and slots businesses one year to implement a computerised
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system connected in real time to a central computer that in turn is interconnected with the tax office SUNAT and with the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism.
As yet there is no information about the intended form of the amendment to the law. However, it is anticipated that the plan for information to be sent via Internet by the supervisors at gambling venues could replace the present plan to install a data centre to receive the information from interconnected casinos and slots operations. (E-10.14.11)
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