UK gambling industry launches summer charm offensive to head off tax rise

<p>Exclusive: Lobbyists meet with ministers, and host a darts night with Labour advisers and MPs’ staff</p><p>Gambling lobbyists are staging a summer charm offensive designed to stop ministers from raising taxes on the sector, the Guardian has learned, including meeting with Treasury insiders and hosting a darts evening with Labour special advisers and MPs’ staff.</p><p>The Treasury is considering whether to simplify the various rates of duty applied to gambling products, a measure that the £11.5bn-a-year sector fears would increase its overall tax bill.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/28/gambling-lobby-westminster-charm-offensive-tax-rises-treasury">Continue reading...</a>