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New Jersey Considers Doubling Sports Betting Tax Rate
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3/5/2025
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And finally, let's get to the latest in sports betting taxes, which we've seen some significant
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pullback or at least attempt to pull back in a lot of different places. But is it the opposite here,
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Sam, in New Jersey? It feels like New York and New Jersey are going in two different directions
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here with this. Yeah, well, it's you can figure out why they're going in two different directions
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when you look at their tax rates. New Jersey is about 13 percent. New York is a nation high 51
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percent. So it's a lot easier to drum up support to reduce a tax that is essentially taking half
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your money, more than half your money than it is to drum up support for getting rid of a smaller
00:37
tax. So but New Jersey is considering doubling their tax rate from 13 percent to 25 percent.
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Governor Phil Murphy has been talking about it as part of his budget plan. Kind of ironic,
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considering he was he might be one of the most instrumental people in legalizing sports betting,
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not just in New Jersey, but around the country. When New Jersey sought to legalize sports betting
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a few years back, the NCAA sued him and sued the state to stop it, which essentially led to
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the Supreme Court over repealing the ban. So ironic here now that he's talking about kind
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of doubling the tax. And I think that gives him some credibility here. He can't be seen as this
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guy who is anti gaming industry, anti sports betting. He's pretty much the reason that we
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have it. So it's garnering support in the New Jersey legislature. One senator came out this week,
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said he supports the change. It would add about 400 million dollars to the 58 billion dollar
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budget, which, again, is a drop in the bucket, considering the budget projects to be a six point
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three billion dollar surplus. So there's not this huge need to raise it. There is some opposition
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that's been drummed up in support in I'm sorry, to oppose the tax. In the meanwhile, tied to
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Atlantic City, they want New Jersey to be a gaming hub, you know, as we continue to have online
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sports betting proliferate. But New Jersey, anything they'll do here is very important,
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because, again, they're a leader. So if they do manage to get this over the hill, you never know
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what can happen from now until the end of the budget process, which is in the end of June,
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could be a bargaining chip. If they do manage to get this, it would probably encourage other states
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where there's a lower tax rate to do the same. Maybe not a state like New York again, where it's
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51% already, but other states around the country where you know, they're seeing New Jersey double
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theirs and figuring it's an easy way to make revenue without many changes.
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