Ep 2630: Mags Scragged, Football v Racing - 08/05/23
The Second Captains Podcast
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The Link Between the Betting Tax and the Horse and Greyhound Industry
Every year politicians and the Ministry of Agriculture returns the dole to prove that year's annual funding for the horse and greyhound industries. Since 2001 have we had a selective application of that law? So I think that's important. The second part of it was you said that in practice it is you feel they are still linked. Well we were told that since 2009 this is apparently when they were severed. If they have been severed it's been kept a kind of exquisite secret. For instance the horse racing industry has continued to lobby for an increase in the betting tax. They finally got their way when it went from 1% to 2%. But it's got nothing to do with them. Then
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