You are a native Australian and you have just managed to walk away with the life changing contents on one of NetEnt, Microgaming, Playtech, et al’s mega progressive pokie jackpots, where to next! Once the initial excitement of triggering a big win has passed, do I need to pay some form of taxes on my big win? That is one of the first commonly asked questions by the multitude of Oz players lucky enough to scoop a major benefit from their favorite on-line gambling hobby, usually online pokies or blackjack games. The simple answer is No… Maybe, let us discuss this further!

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The beguiling question that is ‘if I win some money gambling online, do I need to declare it and pay tax on it?’ has two answers. In order to answer the second, we must first answer the first. The first is: in which country to you live?

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Online gambling is here to stay. Although some countries, like the US, are trying to stem the tide. Almost all signs point towards continued growth for online gambling, whether it’s poker or traditional casino games. We’re seeing some new trends in online gambling that are likely to have a profound impact, an impact that probably will be mostly positive. Regardless, these two trends will fundamentally change the world of online gambling.

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What’s more important to a man than sports, cars, the opposite sex, food, drinks, and gear? One might wonder a lot of time while the answer is really simple, money. The truth is that all of these are important for every man out there but the way to achieve his goals and his dreams is given only by money.

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It is a classic hollywood narrative, a high stakes poker game where the odds are stacked and lives depend on the outcome. The setting of the casino has lit up the sliver screen since cinema’s adolescence with audiences never getting bored of that tense final hand or one shot roll of the dice. Whilst movie characters, mainly villains, often resort to the underhanded or almost impossible to win, in reality they could have saved themselves a lot of stress, and possibly a lengthy prison sentence, by doing a bit of online training and winning the old-fashioned, honest way.

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