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Licence fees
Jurisdiction Readings (121 markets)
25 clear/open
66 conditional/active
30 restricted/elevated
| Jurisdiction | Region | Status | Regulatory Summary | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama (US-AL) | Americas | Uncertain | No commercial licensing fee schedule exists. | Profile →Brief |
| Alaska (US-AK) | Americas | Probable | Charitable-gaming permit fees and a 1% net-proceeds fee (AS 05.15.020(b), for gross receipts ≥ $20,000) apply to charitable operators; no commercial casino/sports-betting licence fee schedule exists… | Profile →Brief |
| Alberta (CA-AB) | Americas | Confirmed | AGLC's confirmed fee schedule: operators pay a one-time C$50,000 application fee plus a C$150,000 annual registration fee per site, with a single upfront payment covering all due-diligence costs. | Profile →Brief |
| Algeria (DZ) | Africa | Confirmed | Not applicable — no licensed private gambling market exists, so there is no application or annual fee schedule for private operators. | Profile →Brief |
| Argentina (AR) | Americas | Probable | Fees are set per province. CABA/LOTBA requires a USD 30,000 licence processing fee, a USD 100,000 fixed annual licence fee, and a USD 2m compliance guarantee. | Profile →Brief |
| Arizona (US-AZ) | Americas | Uncertain | ADG charges application and licensing fees for event wagering operator licences under A.R.S. § 5-1301 et seq. for both tribal-track and sports-franchise-track applicants. | Profile →Brief |
| Arkansas (US-AR) | Americas | Probable | The primary quantified fee is the fourth-licence application fee, capped at $250,000; standard licensee/vendor fee schedules were not fully published in available sources. | Profile →Brief |
| Australia (AU) | Asia-Pacific | Probable | Application and annual fees are set at state/territory level (e.g. | Profile →Brief |
| Austria (AT) | Europe | Probable | The lottery/online concession carries an application fee of approximately EUR 10,000 plus EUR 100,000 on grant, with annual fees scaled to activity type and turnover. | Profile →Brief |
| Bangladesh (BD) | Asia-Pacific | Confirmed | Not applicable. No licensed private gambling market exists, so there are no application or annual fees, capitalisation requirements or guarantees. | Profile →Brief |
| Belgium (BE) | Europe | Probable | 2024 annual contributions range from EUR 22,085 (Class A / G1) down to EUR 123 (G2). | Profile →Brief |
| Brazil (BR) | Americas | Confirmed | The federal authorisation carries a BRL 30 million grant fee (approx USD 6m) covering up to three commercial brands/skins; an additional BRL 30m applies per further set of three brands. | Profile →Brief |
| British Columbia (CA-BC) | Americas | Confirmed | No private licensing fees apply because no private pathway exists. | Profile →Brief |
| Bulgaria (BG) | Europe | Probable | From 1 January 2024 the one-off fixed component of the online betting state licensing fee rose to BGN 400,000 (~€204,500). | Profile →Brief |
| California (US-CA) | Americas | Uncertain | Cardroom and TPPP licensing fees are set under the Gambling Control Act; no online-gambling fee schedule exists as no such licence class is available. | Profile →Brief |
| Cambodia (KH) | Asia-Pacific | Uncertain | Published fees centre on land-based casino licensing. | Profile →Brief |
| Cameroon (CM) | Africa | Uncertain | Specific ARJ application and annual fee schedules are set by Décret 2019/2300/PM but are published only in French and were not retrieved in primary form. | Profile →Brief |
| China (CN) | Asia-Pacific | Confirmed | Not applicable. No private licensing pathway exists, so there are no application or annual licence fees for private operators. | Profile →Brief |
| Colorado (US-CO) | Americas | Uncertain | The Colorado Division of Gaming charges application and licensing fees for internet sports betting licensees and master licensees under C.R.S. § 44-30-1501 et seq. | Profile →Brief |
| Connecticut (US-CT) | Americas | Probable | No application fee attaches to the three master wagering licences (the tribes pay no initial fee); the state instead collects fees across the supply chain. | Profile →Brief |
| Costa Rica (CR) | Americas | Probable | Costs are registration-driven, not licence-driven. | Profile →Brief |
| Croatia (HR) | Europe | Probable | Under the Games of Chance Act as amended by NN 72/25 (in force 1 May 2025), the annual licence fee is EUR 600,000 for online casino games (Art. | Profile →Brief |
| Côte d'Ivoire (CI) | Africa | Uncertain | Profile →Brief | |
| Delaware (US-DE) | Americas | Probable | Delaware does not operate an open-market application-fee model. | Profile →Brief |
| District of Columbia (US-DC) | Americas | Uncertain | Specific application and annual licence fee dollar amounts for Class A/B/C sports wagering operators were not located in available sources; fee bands are estimated pending further OLG fee-schedule… | Profile →Brief |
| Dominican Republic (DO) | Americas | Probable | Online licence fees under Resolution 136-2024 are material: online casino ~USD 346,000 and online sports betting ~USD 260,000, plus a third 'other applications' licence. | Profile →Brief |
| Ecuador (EC) | Americas | Probable | The LOPD licence costs 655 unified basic salaries — USD 307,850 in 2025 (SBU USD 470) — payable annually within the first 20 days of each fiscal year for the five-year licence term. | Profile →Brief |
| Egypt (EG) | Africa | Confirmed | No private-operator licensing fee regime exists under the prohibition framework. | Profile →Brief |
| Estonia (EE) | Europe | Probable | Estonia's licence costs are low relative to EU peers. | Profile →Brief |
| Florida (US-FL) | Americas | Probable | Statutory fee/tax burden for licensed pari-mutuel activity is comparatively low (a fractional handle-based tax on thoroughbred racing), while the economically dominant digital sports-betting/casino… | Profile →Brief |
| France (FR) | Europe | Probable | ANJ agrément application fees apply per product category (historically ~EUR 60,000 per category), plus an annual supervisory fee based on activity level. | Profile →Brief |
| Georgia (US-GA) | Americas | Confirmed | No fee schedule exists for sports betting or casino products since no licensing category exists. | Profile →Brief |
| Germany (DE) | Europe | Probable | Initial application fees can reach approximately €185,000 plus a stake-volume component, with an annual supervisory fee calculated on GGR/risk profile. | Profile →Brief |
| Ghana (GH) | Africa | Probable | GCG licence fees per legal-adviser sourcing are approximately US$50,000 (casino), US$40,000 (sports betting) and US$30,000 (route operation), governed by the Fees and Charges (Miscellaneous… | Profile →Brief |
| Gibraltar (GI) | Europe | confirmed | Gibraltar's remote licence fees are set by the Gambling (Duties and Licence Fees) Regulations 2026 (LN.2026/065), made under sections 155(1) and 175 of the Gambling Act 2025 and in force from 1 April… | Profile →Brief |
| Greece (GR) | Europe | Confirmed | Type 1 online betting licence costs EUR 3 million and Type 2 (casino/poker) EUR 2 million, each valid for 7 years with renewal at the same cost and no annual renewal charge cited in primary sources. | Profile →Brief |
| Hawaii (US-HI) | Americas | Confirmed | No licensing regime exists; no fee schedule applies. | Profile →Brief |
| Hong Kong (HK) | Asia-Pacific | Confirmed | No private licensing exists, so there are no application or annual licence fees for third-party operators. HKJC operates under statutory authorisation rather than a fee-bearing competitive licence. | Profile →Brief |
| Iceland (IS) | Europe | Confirmed | Not applicable to private commercial operators — no licence is available to purchase. State/charitable operators direct proceeds to social causes rather than paying licence fees in a commercial sense. | Profile →Brief |
| Idaho (US-ID) | Americas | Uncertain | No B2C/B2B licence fee schedule exists for core gambling products; the only administrative fee structures relate to racing/ADW licensure, lottery retailer contracts, and charitable bingo/raffle… | Profile →Brief |
| Illinois (US-IL) | Americas | Uncertain | The IGB charges application and licensing fees for sports wagering operator licences under 230 ILCS 45/. | Profile →Brief |
| Indiana (US-IN) | Americas | Probable | Operator (vendor) licences carry a $100,000 initial fee and a $50,000 annual renewal under IGC rules; tether casinos/racinos hold master certificates. Fees are modest relative to other US states. | Profile →Brief |
| Indonesia (ID) | Asia-Pacific | Confirmed | No gambling fees exist — there is no licensing regime under which application or annual fees could be levied. | Profile →Brief |
| Iowa (US-IA) | Americas | Uncertain | Licence application and annual regulatory fees are set by the IRGC under Ch. 99F.10 and the gaming regulatory revolving fund provisions (99F.20). | Profile →Brief |
| Ireland (IE) | Europe | Probable | The GRAI is introducing a tiered application fee system (subject to consultation). | Profile →Brief |
| Japan (JP) | Asia-Pacific | Probable | Online gambling: not applicable (prohibited). | Profile →Brief |
| Kazakhstan (KZ) | Asia-Pacific | Probable | Kazakhstan applies a fixed-unit gaming business tax per gaming table, slot machine, and bookmaker/totalizator outlet, calculated on the MCI (KZT 4,325 for 2026). | Profile →Brief |
| Kentucky (US-KY) | Americas | Probable | DFS fee schedule newly codified under HB 904; sports-wagering fee schedule established via KHRGC regulation and licensed-track partnership model. | Profile →Brief |
| Kenya (KE) | Africa | Uncertain | Cap. 131 and the Gambling Control Act 2025 set statutory security/bond expectations by category which operators should treat as a material capital-planning item. | Profile →Brief |
| Liechtenstein (LI) | Europe | Probable | Minimum share capital of CHF 5,000,000 and an ongoing equity ratio of 30% of total assets or 20% of GGR (whichever higher) apply to casino permit holders. | Profile →Brief |
| Lithuania (LT) | Europe | Probable | The dedicated remote-only licence carries a one-off fee of EUR 500,000 with an indefinite term; a combined land-based + remote licence costs EUR 1m. | Profile →Brief |
| Louisiana (US-LA) | Americas | Confirmed | Profile →Brief | |
| Luxembourg (LU) | Europe | Uncertain | No private licence-application fee schedule exists since no new licences are issued; fee/fiscal structures apply only to the two incumbent monopolies via bespoke instruments. | Profile →Brief |
| Macau (MO) | Asia-Pacific | Probable | Land-based concession premium payments to government are substantial, comprising a fixed and a special (variable) premium plus contractual investment commitments. | Profile →Brief |
| Maine (US-ME) | Americas | Probable | Profile →Brief | |
| Malaysia (MY) | Asia-Pacific | Probable | No fee schedule exists for online gambling — there is no licence to apply for. | Profile →Brief |
| Malta (MT) | Europe | Confirmed | A €5,000 application fee applies to a new licence. | Profile →Brief |
| Maryland (US-MD) | Americas | Confirmed | The mobile sports wagering licence carries a $500,000 non-refundable application fee, a $100,000 annual fee and a 5-year renewable term under § 9-1E-06. | Profile →Brief |
| Massachusetts (US-MA) | Americas | Probable | The one-year Category 3 operator licence fee was $1 million; full five-year Category 3 licences were awarded in December 2025 following suitability review. | Profile →Brief |
| Mexico (MX) | Americas | Uncertain | Permit holders pay a federal 'participación' (aprovechamiento) of 1-2% of income depending on bet origin and permit type — generally 2% on horse/greyhound tracks and 1% on national/international… | Profile →Brief |
| Michigan (US-MI) | Americas | Confirmed | Sports betting operator licensing involves a $50,000 application fee, $100,000 initial licence fee, and $50,000 annual fee. | Profile →Brief |
| Minnesota (US-MN) | Americas | Probable | Charitable-gambling licensees face GCB application/renewal fees and may face local investigation fees up to $250 and local gambling taxes up to 3% of gross receipts. | Profile →Brief |
| Mississippi (US-MS) | Americas | Probable | Profile →Brief | |
| Missouri (US-MO) | Americas | Probable | The sports-wagering licence fee is set at $250,000 for a five-year renewable term, applicable across all three licence-class tracks (casino-tethered, team-tethered, untethered). | Profile →Brief |
| Montana (US-MT) | Americas | Uncertain | Gambling licence applications are submitted to the DOJ Gambling Control Division on prescribed forms (ARM 23.16.102) with statutory fee schedules; the injected T1 sources locate the application… | Profile →Brief |
| Morocco (MA) | Africa | Confirmed | No private operator licensing regime exists for online verticals, so no application or annual fee schedule applies to entrants. | Profile →Brief |
| Myanmar (MM) | Asia-Pacific | Confirmed | Not applicable — no functional licensing market exists. | Profile →Brief |
| Nebraska (US-NE) | Americas | Confirmed | The Authorized Gaming Operator Licence carries a $5,000,000 fee payable over five years with a $1,000,000 initial payment at issuance, and a minimum 20-year licence duration with annual review; a… | Profile →Brief |
| Nepal (NP) | Asia-Pacific | Uncertain | No fee regime applies to online gambling operators, which are prohibited. | Profile →Brief |
| Nevada (US-NV) | Americas | Probable | Non-restricted gaming licence application and annual renewal fees scale with the number of games; large-scale operators face application/renewal fees in the order of $16,000 plus per-game charges… | Profile →Brief |
| New Brunswick (CA-NB) | Americas | Probable | There is no commercial operator licence-fee schedule because the market is a Crown monopoly. | Profile →Brief |
| New Hampshire (US-NH) | Americas | Confirmed | Profile →Brief | |
| New Mexico (US-NM) | Americas | Uncertain | NMGCB fee schedule figures for non-tribal licensees (route operator, manufacturer/distributor, racino) were not confirmed to T1/T2 precision in this pass; logged as a coverage gap. | Profile →Brief |
| New York (US-NY) | Americas | Confirmed | The mobile sports wagering platform licence application fee is $25M, payable within 30 days of approval, reflecting the market's exclusivity. | Profile →Brief |
| New Zealand (NZ) | Asia-Pacific | Uncertain | Land-based casino operating licences involve annual fees rather than a GGR tax. | Profile →Brief |
| Nigeria (NG) | Africa | Probable | LSLGA fees are material and NGN-denominated. | Profile →Brief |
| North Carolina (US-NC) | Americas | Confirmed | NCSLC charges a $1m interactive sports wagering operator licence fee for a five-year term, with a further $1m renewal after five years. | Profile →Brief |
| North Dakota (US-ND) | Americas | Probable | Profile →Brief | |
| Ohio (US-OH) | Americas | Uncertain | OCCC charges application and licensing fees for sports wagering operator and supplier licences under Ohio Rev. | Profile →Brief |
| Oklahoma (US-OK) | Americas | Probable | No B2C/B2B online licence fee schedule exists. Tribal compacting involves one-time startup fees and annual oversight assessments payable to the OMES Gaming Compliance Unit under Form G-1. | Profile →Brief |
| Ontario (CA-ON) | Americas | Probable | There is no traditional licence-fee-plus-GGR-tax model. | Profile →Brief |
| Oregon (US-OR) | Americas | Probable | There is no traditional operator application/annual licence fee schedule; instead the Lottery structures its single-vendor arrangement as a revenue-share/vendor-fee contract. <cite… | Profile →Brief |
| Pakistan (PK) | Asia-Pacific | Confirmed | No licensing fee regime exists because no gambling licence is issued. | Profile →Brief |
| Panama (PA) | Americas | Probable | Advisory sources report a one-time state fee of approximately USD 40,000 on licence approval (cited under Cabinet Decree No. 462), an annual renewal fee of approximately USD 20,000, and a… | Profile →Brief |
| Philippines (PH) | Asia-Pacific | Probable | PAGCOR cut E-Games licence fee rates from a punitive 50-55% of GGR to 30% effective 1 January 2025 to encourage formalisation. | Profile →Brief |
| Qatar (QA) | Middle East | Confirmed | Not applicable — no licensing regime exists, hence no fee schedule. | Profile →Brief |
| Quebec (CA-QC) | Americas | Confirmed | No private licensing fees apply because no private licensing pathway exists. | Profile →Brief |
| Rhode Island (US-RI) | Americas | Probable | Rhode Island does not levy open-market application or licence fees; entry economics are governed by Lottery-determined revenue-sharing under contractor procurement. | Profile →Brief |
| Rwanda (RW) | Africa | Uncertain | RDB resumed annual licence-fee collection in August 2025, directing licensees to recommence payment. | Profile →Brief |
| Saudi Arabia (SA) | Middle East | Confirmed | Not applicable — there is no licensed gambling market, no regulator, and no fee schedule. | Profile →Brief |
| Senegal (SN) | Africa | Uncertain | No private online licensing fee schedule exists. | Profile →Brief |
| Serbia (RS) | Europe | Probable | After the 2024 amendments, online operators pay a monthly approval fee of EUR 10,000 (dinar equivalent), plus a duty on stakes-minus-payouts subject to a minimum monthly payment of EUR 10,000. | Profile →Brief |
| Slovakia (SK) | Europe | Probable | Online casino licence costs are high, reported up to EUR 1.1m in total financial commitment, with bank guarantees and minimum registered capital required. | Profile →Brief |
| Slovenia (SI) | Europe | Uncertain | Concession applicants face significant capital and guarantee requirements, particularly for casino and gaming-hall concessions; secondary sources disagree on the precise minimum share-capital figure… | Profile →Brief |
| South Africa (ZA) | Africa | Probable | Provincial application and annual fees vary by PLA; sports-betting application fees typically range ZAR 50,000–500,000 with annual fees linked to GGR tiers and bank-guarantee requirements (typically… | Profile →Brief |
| South Carolina (US-SC) | Americas | Confirmed | Profile →Brief | |
| South Dakota (US-SD) | Americas | Confirmed | Fees are modest and tiered by licence class. | Profile →Brief |
| South Korea (KR) | Asia-Pacific | Probable | No licensing fee regime exists for private online operators because no pathway exists. | Profile →Brief |
| Spain (ES) | Europe | Probable | Application and administrative fees include approximately €38,000 for technical reports, €10,000 per gambling licence, and €2,500 per licence registration. | Profile →Brief |
| Sri Lanka (LK) | Asia-Pacific | Probable | Under the prior (now-repealed) Casino Business Licensing Regulation 2022, a new or renewed casino licence cost LKR 500,000,000 for a five-year term, payable upfront, with multi-period options up to… | Profile →Brief |
| Taiwan (TW) | Asia-Pacific | Probable | No application or licensing fees exist for private operators because no licence framework exists. | Profile →Brief |
| Tanzania (TZ) | Africa | Uncertain | GBT application and annual licence fees are prescribed in the First Schedule to the Gaming Regulations 2003 and vary by licence category. | Profile →Brief |
| Texas (US-TX) | Americas | Probable | No commercial B2C licensing fee regime exists for casino or sports betting. Fees are confined to the legal carve-outs (bingo license fees, lottery retailer fees, racing licence fees), all modest. | Profile →Brief |
| Thailand (TH) | Asia-Pacific | Probable | No private operator fee schedule exists under current law. | Profile →Brief |
| Tunisia (TN) | Africa | Probable | No fee regime applies to private operators because no private online licensing route exists. Casino authorisation and Promosport concession terms are set administratively and are not published. | Profile →Brief |
| Turkey (TR) | Europe | Uncertain | No fee schedule exists for a private-sector applicant because no such pathway exists. | Profile →Brief |
| Uganda (UG) | Africa | Uncertain | NLGRB fees are set under Lotteries and Gaming Act regulations and have been revised to improve collection. | Profile →Brief |
| United Arab Emirates (AE) | Middle East | Uncertain | No public GCGRA fee schedule for online or land-based gaming licences as at June 2026. | Profile →Brief |
| United Kingdom (UK) | Europe | Confirmed | The UKGC charges tiered annual fees by Gross Gambling Yield (GGY) band plus one-off application fees. | Profile →Brief |
| United States (US) | Americas | Probable | There are no federal gambling licensing fees because the federal level issues no gambling licences. | Profile →Brief |
| Uruguay (UY) | Americas | Uncertain | Land-based private casino concessions are awarded through competitive tender with high capital thresholds (e.g. the Cipriani Punta del Este bid required USD 450m of investment, and competing claims… | Profile →Brief |
| Utah (US-UT) | Americas | Confirmed | No licence-fee schedule exists; there is no licence class to which an application or annual fee could attach. | Profile →Brief |
| Venezuela (VE) | Americas | Uncertain | Nominal licensing fees exist under Law 36.254 (large capital requirements historically expressed in tax units), but hyperinflation renders historical amounts economically meaningless and tax-unit… | Profile →Brief |
| Vermont (US-VT) | Americas | Confirmed | DLL charges an initial operator fee of $550,000 per licensee, renegotiable but not assessable more than once per three-year period; no separate application fee schedule beyond this was identified. | Profile →Brief |
| Vietnam (VN) | Asia-Pacific | Probable | Casino entry under Decree 03/2017 requires integrated-resort investment of at least USD 2 billion and entry-ticket fees for Vietnamese pilot players (VND 1m/24h or VND 25m/month). | Profile →Brief |
| Virginia (US-VA) | Americas | Confirmed | Operator permits carry a $250,000 issuance fee plus $50,000 per principal, valid three years and renewable for $200,000. | Profile →Brief |
| Washington (US-WA) | Americas | Probable | Tribal compacts do not impose direct state revenue-share; instead tribes reimburse WSGC for regulatory, certification, and gaming-lab costs and make modest charitable/responsible-gaming… | Profile →Brief |
| West Virginia (US-WV) | Americas | Confirmed | Interactive wagering operator application fee is $250,000, with a $100,000 renewal every five years. | Profile →Brief |
| Wisconsin (US-WI) | Americas | Uncertain | No public licensing fee schedule exists because there is no commercial B2C licence; tribal compacts substitute a negotiated revenue-share arrangement with the state instead of a fixed… | Profile →Brief |
| Wyoming (US-WY) | Americas | Confirmed | Operator permit fees are flat and low relative to peer states: $100,000 application, $100,000 annual renewal. | Profile →Brief |
| Zambia (ZM) | Africa | Uncertain | BCLB licence fees are moderate-to-low by regional standards. | Profile →Brief |