Add DraftKings’ Surcharge could be used to Combat Illinois new Gaming Tax

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+<br>Illinois’ invasive new tax plan will test sportsbooks’ ability to withstand the temptation to offer the equivalent of an eye for an eye.<br>
+<br>Kew Takeaways<br>
+<br>- DraftKings’ surcharge was proposed to combat high-tax states
+- Public pressure forced the company to abandon its ideas
+- A $.32 surcharge per wager would mean $10 bettors need to win 56 percent of bets to stay profitable<br>
+<br>The state’s per-bet tax is reminiscent of DraftKings' scrapped plans for a betting surcharge which would force customers to pay extra to submit wagers.<br>
+<br>Illinois this week refitted its sports betting industry with a first-of-its-kind per-bet tax. The new standard will charge sports betting operators 25 cents per wager for their first 20 million bets and 50 cents per wager beyond that.<br>
+<br>Legal online Illinois sports betting sites should expect to pay heavy [penalties](https://isurl.cc/rosella50u0678) in the near future. The state [accepted](http://kds.ne.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=free&wr_id=5) 370 million bets last year - at least 300 million of those coming from FanDuel and DraftKings - meaning it would’ve been entitled to an additional $159 million in annual gaming taxes from just those two companies, 57.6 percent of the $276 million it generated as a whole.<br>
+<br>That’s only one-half of the changes that were recently made to the sports betting tax system. Operators will be charged anywhere from 20 to 40 percent of their operating revenue, another [noticeable increase](http://47.112.106.15210880/gladyssylvia21) from the previous 15 percent [flat rate](https://coolingathens.gr/journal-blog).<br>
+<br>The tiered system includes a 20 percent tax on the first $30 million of adjusted gross revenue, 25 percent on the next $20 million (up to $50 million), 30 percent on the next $50 million (up to $100 million), 35 percent on the next $100 million (up to $200 million), and 40 percent on anything above that.<br>
+<br>Will the surcharge return?<br>
+<br>Illinois’ sweeping changes were met with strong criticism from industry members and sportsbook representatives.<br>
+<br>Despite that, it is the everyday bettors who could be hit the .<br>
+<br>DraftKings last August announced its plans to implement a surcharge on wagers placed in "high-tax" states, or those with rates exceeding 20 percent, which [included](https://gitlab.dangwan.com/portersankt339/the-bet-9ja-promotion-code-this-2026-is-yohaig/-/issues/1) Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, and Vermont.<br>
+<br>The company’s CEO, Jason Robins, said that a winning $10 wager would return $9.68 after a 32-cent surcharge was deducted to account for Illinois’ steep tax penalty. He also said that the rate would be even higher in New York, which imposed a 51 percent tax rate.<br>
+<br>Although one quarter, one nickel, and two pennies might not sound like much, the surcharge would further decrease the margins within which winning bettors have to operate.<br>
+<br>Diving into the numbers<br>
+<br>Robins’ example posits a $10 wager was made at +100 odds to win $10. If that bet only netted a $9.68 profit after the surcharge, the odds were effectively reduced to about -103, or 0.74 percent lower [implied probability](https://repbourne.com/archerelyard81).<br>
+<br>That’s on top of the vig that is baked into every odds value posted on major sportsbooks. An industry standard vig is about 4.5 percent implied probability.<br>
+<br>All in all, bettors would lose about eight points of odds value and 5.2 percent probability.<br>
+<br>Considering bettors already need to win 52.4 percent of bets at the standard -110 odds value, usually the baseline for two-outcome markets such as the spread, that means that $10-$100 bettors would need to win 52.7-55.6 percent of their bets to turn a profit with a surcharge.<br>
+<br>Still not feeling the effects? Pretend that a bettor wagers $100 on -110 odds every week.<br>
+<br>Without the surcharge, winning exactly 50 percent of these bets would result in $236.34 in losses, and winning 52.4 percent of these bets would turn a $1.24 profit.<br>
+<br>With the surcharge, winning 50 percent of bets would create $252.98 in losses, and [winning](https://git.wisder.net/sharronkidman0) 52.4 percent of wagers would result in $15.40 in losses.<br>
+<br>The gambling industry fights back<br>
+<br>DraftKings has not alluded to bringing back its highly-opposed approach. However, sportsbooks have previously [threatened](http://avrasyakoltuk.com/blog/shopping/classic-watches) to tank their odds if states got too greedy with their tax rates.<br>