Mike O’Loughlin | Tasmanian Talks | 26 August 2021
Poker Machines
Dark deals with donors
Kingborough Chronicle | 24 August 2021 Independent Member for Nelson, Meg Webb MLC has accused the Premier of Tasmania, Peter Gutwein MP, of withholding vital information on casino tax rates prior and during the May 2021 State election campaign.Ms Webb released a...
Federal Group to receive a 57-per-cent tax cut on revenue from poker machines in 2023
Matt Maloney | Examiner Newspaper | 20 August 2021 Premier Peter Gutwein has stood firm that state cabinet did not finalise consideration over future gaming legislation, including a reduced tax rate for casino poker machines, until after the state election.Mr Gutwein...
Premier defends secret tax talks
David Killick | Mercury Newspaper | 20 August 2021 THERE was nothing untoward about secret negotiations with Liberal donors Federal Group over pokies tax rates before the election, Premier Peter Gutwein says.Mr Gutwein confirmed he acted alone as Treasurer, and did...
Casino deal kept secret
David Killick | Mercury Newspaper | 19 August 2021 Tax rate a ‘gift to party donor’THE state government secretly negotiated “acceptable” casino tax rates with Federal Group last year but kept the details quiet until after the election, documents released under right...
Tas Govt plan to slash tax rates known before election
Alexandra Humphries | ABC News | 18 August 2021 Crucial information withheld from the state’s major stakeholders - the Tasmanian people - during the election campaign. Meg Webb on ABC News Hobart. Read Meg’s Media Release hereSee the RTI...
Tax rates for Casinos deliberately withheld
Win News | 18 August 2021
Premier hid casino tax rates RTI shows
Leon Compton | ABC Mornings | 18 August 2021RTI documents which show Premier Peter Gutwein cut the new deal for the Federal Group casino pokies tax rate months before the 2021 State Election. Meg Webb with Leon Compton on ABC Mornings. Read Meg's Media Release...
Casino tax rate deal exposed
Media release | 18 August 2021 Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb today released RTI documents which show Premier Peter Gutwein cut the new deal for the Federal Group casino pokies tax rate months before the 2021 State Election.“I call on the Premier to come...
RTI – Future Gaming Markets Casino Licence Fees and Tax Rates
Information requested from Treasury and Finance on 19 July 2021. Decision received 17 August 2021. RTI Request: All correspondence between the Treasurer and the Department of Treasury, and the Tasmanian Hospitality Association, Federal Group, and/or the Tasmanian...
While pokies were closed
due to COVID-19
Tasmanians saved
Poker machines were closed in Tasmania on March 23, 2020
and reopened on June 26, 2020.
In 2018-19 Tasmanians lost $171,603,745 to poker machines
PETITION
