According to the Prime Minister, in the first stage it is planned to increase the tax for online casinos, to ban advertising, to raise the age limit for users to 25, and in the second stage to ban it altogether

Taxes for owners of online casinos in Georgia will be increased, advertising will be banned and the age limit for users will be raised to 25 years.

The statement was made by the Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Gharibashvili at today's government sitting. According to him, it is also planned to completely ban online casinos.

"One billion 500 million GEL flow out of the country through online casinos, our citizens, young people play in online casinos every day and lose money. This sum amounts to 1 500 million. I have talked about this with our economic team and we think that in the first stage the Minister of Finance will present a legislative initiative to increase taxes for the owners of online casinos and the vast majority of them are foreign companies. Unfortunately, the money of our citizens is flowing abroad. This is 1 500 million and 99% of this is the poor population who are not working. We think we should increase taxes, ban advertising, as well as raise the threshold to 25 years, in the second stage online casinos should be banned altogether, I am ready to talk about it openly. We will work actively with the parliament", - Irakli Gharibashvili said.