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Maryland Sets Latest Trend with Sports Betting Tax Hike
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5/28/2025
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finally let's get to maryland who's going to be a trendsetter in this industry the rest of the year
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looking for a tax hike in sports betting i know that a lot of you know states are looking to do
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this maybe the idea sam isn't going for what new york has at 50 you know maybe it's going for
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smaller increments because if it worked for maryland maybe it'll work for another state too
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yeah you're definitely right craig we've heard a lot of talk so far this year about sports betting
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taxes and maryland's one of the first to actually get it done with a hack tax hike increase they went
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from 15 to now 20 which will take effect just before the football season and that's a pretty
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big bump when you you know historically you've thought about most states only tax about five to
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ten percent you mentioned new york which is an outlier 50 but now we've seen more states kind
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of adopt the small incremental bumps which uh to your point craig a lot easier to get adopted than
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just double the rate you know we saw um ohio already doubled its tax rate once um from 10 to 20
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now it wants to do 40 as well so ohio has been one of the more aggressive states there new jersey
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actually just introduced a bill from the governor that would raise their rate to 25 you have louisiana
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also considering this but what seems to be easier to get done is when you have states like maryland where
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they were facing uh two and uh 2.7 billion dollar budget deficit uh they look to a business like
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sports betting which quite frankly you know when you have a recession or times when the economy is tough
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it's been pretty resilient and it's actually done a lot better it certainly was the case during covid
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when a lot of states faced budget shortfalls so um no surprise to see other states considering the
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idea once you have a state like maryland um having success with actually going through with it then you
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have to think about how the industry itself is going to respond you know last year trafficking
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famously uh announced uh that they were going to have this fee that was placed on bettors in high
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tax states like new york high tax states like vermont and illinois which would essentially just make the
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payout worse for people in those states they walked that back before ever implementing it kind of as they
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got a lot of backlash and we've heard other companies as well talk about you know quote unquote other
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levers they can pull to make up these differences in the states so i think it's going to be really
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interesting to see we kind of are at the point where we already know more states are going to
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adopt this but how do sports books themselves actually respond when you know the cat is kind
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of out of the bag and it doesn't seem like this is going to go away anytime soon i don't think
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anyone's really considering lowering taxes on sports books it might be a long time before that
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happens so we'll have to see how they deal with this we'll have to see if you know a proposal comes out
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to you know make the outcomes worse for betters in these states we'll have to see you know the
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industry certainly has a lot of other things uh legislatively that it's on it's on its plate
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yet prediction markets you have fantasy sports you have legalizing sports betting and i gaming in
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other states we'll have to see where this goes on the priority list in terms of combating tax rates
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especially if it's only incremental um so maryland uh we'll see if they you know if their move here
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is something that a lot of other states actually are successfully adopting but they're definitely
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thinking about it for now
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