Casino tax receipts up 33 pct in 2015: government

The government collected $34.7 million in taxes from Cambodia’s 63 licensed casinos in 2015, a 33 per cent increase over the previous year, a Ministry of Economy and Finance official said on 12 January.

Ros Phirun, deputy director of the ministry’s Finance Industry department, attributed the increase to improved tax collection efforts, a trend he said that would continue as the government looked to collect taxes from the non-gaming revenue sources of casino operations.

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