{"id":30257,"date":"2025-11-10T18:21:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T18:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/30257\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T18:21:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T18:21:06","slug":"sports-betting-alliance-pushes-back-against-potential-pennsylvania-tax-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/30257\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Betting Alliance pushes back against potential Pennsylvania tax increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-betting \">The country\u2019s top sports betting and online gaming companies are \u201cpushing back against any potential tax increase\u201d on gambling in Pennsylvania as state lawmakers \u201chaggle over a long-delayed budget,\u201d according to Benjamin Kail of the PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE. The Sports Betting Alliance (SBA) &#8212; comprised of DraftKings, FanDuel, Fanatics, Bet365, and BetMGM &#8212; says that \u201cany tax hike could undercut growing industries\u201d that, combined, \u201cgenerated nearly\u201d $3B in revenue and $1.3B in taxes in the last fiscal year, according to the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board. The group \u201cran an anti-tax ad this weekend\u201d in the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia areas that will \u201ccontinue at least through Monday Night Football.\u201d The ad compared \u201cany potential tax bump on the group\u2019s businesses to the high prices Pennsylvanians face at grocery stores and gas pumps.\u201d Sources said in late October that state lawmakers are discussing \u201cpotential tax proposals,\u201d but they were \u201cunaware of specific rates under consideration.\u201d The SBA argued that increasing the taxes would \u201cforce the companies to pass on the costs to consumers.\u201d According to\u202fLegal Sports Report, the push from SBA comes as \u201csports betting and online casino operators plan to launch a super PAC\u201d with $10M \u201cahead of the 2026 midterm elections\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/news\/state\/2025\/11\/09\/sports-betting-online-gaming-shapiro-pennsylvania-budget\/stories\/202511090138\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE, 11\/9<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The country\u2019s top sports betting and online gaming companies are \u201cpushing back against any potential tax increase\u201d on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7159,28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-30257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-gambling","9":"tag-pennsylvania","10":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","11":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}