The new Casinos Law would be oriented to in favor the companies that operate outside the law and it will allow them not to pay taxes for over 150 million, the tax lawyer Jorge Manini said.

The current legal mark of slot machines and casinos is given by Law Nº 27153, which establishes the Gaming Taxes. However, on January 1st, 2007, law 28872 should substitute the previous one, and this one substitutes the tax for a special regimen of Rent Tax, with which these businesses should pay about 198 million.

“The legal protection appeals protect these informal companies from the payment of the gaming tax but not from the Rent Tax. What the Commission intends is to eliminate the modification and that the legal protections protect the informality again”.

Another issue of the law is that it puts an end to the prohibition of having casinos or slot machines within 150 meters from an educational center.