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# Poland — Outlook: What is coming? | advennt.io

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# Poland Gambling — Outlook: What is coming?

Key section parameters

Jurisdiction Poland (PL)

Regulator Recorded in register

Favourability Mixed

Confidence Probable

Review status Expert approved · 5 post-review updates · Not reviewed · In expert review scope

Last collected 25 Oct 2026

Summary answer

Casino: There is only one legal online casino in Poland - Total Casino, organized by the state-owned company – Totalizator Sportowy. In June 2025, the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (“KNF”) sent a letter to payment service providers regarding cooperation with entities organising illegal gamb…

11 Oct 2026 Read update Three tightening instruments remain in Poland's legislative pipeline, none yet enacted. A draft amendment would classify paid loot boxes as a gambling product; public consultations were slated to begin 4 January 2026, sponsored by Poland 2050, though confirmation of a first reading was not available. A Penal Code amendment would criminalise influencer promotion of illegal online gambling, with penalties reported at three months to five years' imprisonment, and remains before the Sejm. A separate amendment to Gambling Act Articles 6a(6), 15f(4)(6)(9), 90 and 90a, which would extend the illegal-domain register to advertising and promotion domains and reassign fine-imposition power from the Minister of Finance to the head of the competent customs-and-tax office, remains before the Senate. Together these signal a continuing tightening trajectory, though the Journal of Laws primary text for the Senate amendment has not yet been retrieved.

28 Sep 2026 Read update Poland's reform horizon this cycle carries three concurrent, unenacted threads. First, a Ministry of Finance draft would create a new licence category for games involving virtual goods, proposed for a two-year term and exempt from the state monopoly and standard tax treatment; it has not yet been formally tabled before the Sejm. Second, a draft amendment to the Excise Duty Act and Personal Income Tax Act, project UD289, would raise the withholding tax on gambling winnings from 10 to 15 percent from 2026 and extend it to winnings earned abroad in other EU and EEA states; it is currently before government. Third, a Penal Code amendment bill introduced in early 2026 would classify promotion of illegal online gambling by influencers as a serious criminal offence. None of the three has reached enactment. Taken together, they point to a regulatory environment moving simultaneously toward a narrow new licensing opening and a broader tightening of tax and marketing-liability rules, with the ultimate shape of each still to be settled by the Sejm and government.

22 Sep 2026 Read update Three concurrent reform tracks define Poland's reform horizon this cycle. First, a draft amendment would classify loot boxes as gambling, subject to public consultation from 4 January 2026, granting two-year licences with randomness disclosure and age-control conditions. Second, draft Act project UD289 would raise the flat-rate winnings tax from 10 to 15 percent, targeted for 2026. Third, a draft Penal Code amendment introducing Article 255b would criminalise public dissemination of content promoting or streaming illegal gambling, received by the Sejm and backed by the governing coalition. All three are probable-confidence, draft-stage developments rather than enacted law, and none has yet been corroborated against a primary Sejm or Ministry of Finance source. Taken together they represent a coordinated tightening trajectory across product scope, fiscal burden, and criminal liability, and an operator should treat enactment of any two of the three as the threshold event that would materially change the operating calculus.

14 Sep 2026 Read update Three reform tracks remained live in Poland this cycle. First, a draft Gambling Act amendment to add "games for virtual goods" (loot boxes) as a new licensed product category, with licences valid for two years, remains under Sejm review; consultations were reported to have opened on 4 January 2026, but no further advancement was confirmed this cycle. Second, the "End of Patostreaming" bill, criminalising influencer and streamer promotion of illegal gambling with penalties of three months to five years' imprisonment, passed the Sejm 419 votes to 19 on 12 June 2026 and is pending further steps in the Senate; its final Senate and presidential disposition is unconfirmed. Third, the winnings-tax rate remains contested between sources: one account describes a pending increase from 10% to 15%, while a later tracker entry reports a presidential veto preserving the 10% rate, with no primary-source (ISAP/Dziennik Ustaw) confirmation reached this cycle. Together these three tracks represent an active tightening trajectory rather than a stable baseline.

9 Sep 2026 Read update Poland has three active reform tracks running concurrently this cycle. The patostreaming bill has passed the Sejm (419-19) and awaits Senate action, with the Prime Minister having requested action from the Senate or Sejm speaker to advance it. The Ministry of Finance opened a public consultation on 4 January 2026 on adding loot boxes as a licensable gambling activity class, which would make Poland the third EU state, after Belgium and the Netherlands, to regulate loot boxes as gambling. The winnings-tax rise to 15 percent under Draft Act UD289 is targeted for January 2026 effect. A separate, single-sourced and uncorroborated claim of a consolidating Gambling Modernisation Act cutting the online turnover tax from 12 percent to 10 percent conflicts with other sourcing and remains flagged Uncertain pending primary-source confirmation. Collectively these tracks show real legislative momentum toward a tighter regime, though none has yet consolidated into a settled new baseline.

## Full section analysis

Casino: There is only one legal online casino in Poland - Total Casino, organized by the state-owned company – Totalizator Sportowy. In June 2025, the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (“KNF”) sent a letter to payment service providers regarding cooperation with entities organising illegal gambling. The letter concerned the provision of payment methods by PSPs despite their customers providing illegal services. The KNF letters described the phenomenon and recommended appropriate corrective measures.

Skill games: Although in the year of 2019 a national daily newspaper Dziennik Gazeta Prawna informed that following an analysis of the country’s gambling legislation, the Polish Ministry of Finance decided that loot boxes was not any form of gambling, we know that the Ministry is currently taking a fresh look at the issue. The position of the Minister of Finance on this issue should be monitored. Since 2023, the Ministry of Finance has been conducting analyses and industry consultations on loot boxes in response to growing interest in this topic at the EU level. The Ministry of Finance is monitoring the work of the European Commission and countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, which are attempting to regulate loot boxes as gambling or products subject to consumer restrictions.