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Normative Chaos and Economic Trap: Why the New Changes to the Gambling Law Are Dangerous and Misguidedtranslated

October 2, 2026 · 1 min read

Source of the material: Novini.bg

Just two years after the noisy amendments to the Gambling Law in 2024 were announced, the regulators have proposed a completely new Project of Law Amending and Supplementing the Gambling Law (PLASGL) with a planned entry into force on January 1, 2027. This new project reveals a chronic institutional defect: legislative acts are launched that are soon admitted by their own authors to be non-functional.

Under the pretext of "delaying control" and "protecting public interest," the state is launching a package of measures that are not only legally and economically misguided but threaten to achieve the opposite effect – legal business failures, discrimination against Bulgarian media, damage to fiscal policy, and the gift of the market to illegal offshore operators.

Below is a detailed analysis of the five most destructive elements in the proposed government act:

1. The Ground Sector and the New Taxation: Blurring the Online Model with Physical Business The project (§ 18, para. 5 and 6, as well as § 77) dismantles the long-standing decade-long special final tax for gambling halls and casinos (previously regulated in the KAPO according to physical capacity and the number of operated…

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Markus Wagner

This text made me think especially about point 1. Taking a model from online gambling and sticking it on the physical halls and casinos in Bulgaria sounds like a classic example for officials who have never set foot in such a hall. If the legal operators go bankrupt, who will be left - only the illegal sites. I wonder what the Treasury will say to that.