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❓ Mr Murray questions the Minister for Racing and Gaming on their support for recommendations from a 2009-2010 report and a 2012 submission regarding wagering tax rates, particularly in comparison to Victorian rates and in relation to Crown Casino Burswood. The Minister refers the member to a previously tabled government response.

AnsweredQoN 1265Legislative Assembly

Asked

26 September 2013

Member

Mr M.P. Murray

Portfolio

Racing and Gaming

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I refer to the recommendations of the report of the Joint Standing Committee on the Review of the Racing and Wagering Western Australian Acts, 2009–2010 and I ask: (a) do you support Recommendation 26; (b) do you support Recommendation 27; (c) do you support Recommendation 29; and (d) do you support the recommendations of the submission The Racing Industry- A Pathway to Sustained Growth prepared by the members of the former Joint Standing Committee which was forwarded to both the Minister and Treasurer Buswell in December 2012, namely that: (i) the wagering tax/levy on pari – mutuel racing be amended from the current rate of 11.9 per cent to the equivalent of the Victorian rate of 7.6 per cent; (ii) the wagering tax/levy on fixed odds racing be amended from the current rate of 18.18 per cent to the equivalent of the Victorian rate of 4.3 per cent; and (iii) that on commissioning of the increased number of 500 gaming machines and 130 additional gaming tables at Crown Casino Burswood, the wagering tax/levies be amended to 5 per cent and 2 per cent respectively?

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Answered

22 October 2013

Responded by

Minister for Racing and Gaming

Response time

26 days

(a) - (d) The member is referred to the Government's response to the Joint Standing Committee's Review of the Racing and Wagering Western Australia Acts tabled in the Parliament on 5 April 2011.

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