Singapore legislation

Regulation 92E

of Goods and Services Tax (General) Regulations

Regulation 92E

Computation of tax chargeable on gaming supplies

Subregulation 1

The tax chargeable on the gaming supplies of a casino operator made at the end of a prescribed accounting period shall be the tax fraction of the value of those gaming supplies.

Subregulation 2

For the purpose of paragraph (1), the value of the gaming supplies made at the end of a prescribed accounting period shall be the aggregate of the following:

(a)

the sum total of the net wins of all gaming supplies made at the end of that period less the amounts specified in paragraph (3);

(b)

the amount of any bad debt treated as having been recovered under paragraph (5) in that period;

(c)

any negative supply value that may be deducted in accordance with regulation 92F.

Subregulation 3

For the purpose of paragraph (2)(a), the specified amounts are as follows:

(a)

the amount of —

(i)

any bet placed in the prescribed accounting period using complimentary chips or complimentary coupons given by the casino operator;

(ii)

the full value of any bet placed in the prescribed accounting period with a match play coupon given by the casino operator; and

(iii)

any discount or rebate given by the casino operator in the prescribed accounting period;

(b)

the amount of any bad debt treated as having arisen in the prescribed accounting period in accordance with paragraph (4);

(c)

in respect of any table game played in the prescribed accounting period, the amount of any rake which is included in the computation of the net win for the game for the prescribed accounting period but which was not collected by the casino operator.

Subregulation 4

For the purpose of paragraph (3)(b), a bad debt shall be treated as having arisen in a prescribed accounting period where —

(a)

the casino operator has made a gaming supply for a consideration in money and has accounted for and paid tax on the supply;

(b)

the whole or any part of the consideration for the supply has been written off in the accounts of the casino operator as a bad debt;

(c)

the debtor has become insolvent before the end of the prescribed accounting period or a period of 12 months, beginning with the date of the gaming supply, has elapsed before the end of the prescribed accounting period; and

(d)

the Comptroller is satisfied that all reasonable efforts have been taken by the casino operator to recover the debt up to the time the 12 months period referred to in sub-paragraph (c) elapsed or the debtor became insolvent, as the case may be.

Subregulation 5

For the purpose of paragraph (2)(b), where a deduction has been made under paragraph (2) in respect of any bad debt referred to in paragraph (3)(b) and —

(a)

a payment for the gaming supply that has been written off in the accounts of the casino operator as a bad debt is subsequently received as recovery of the bad debt; or

(b)

a payment is attributed to the gaming supply referred to in sub-paragraph (a) as recovery of the bad debt,the amount of the bad debt shall be treated as having been recovered in the prescribed accounting period in which the payment is received for or attributed to the gaming supply.

Subregulation 6

For the purpose of this regulation, the value of any complimentary chip, complimentary coupon, match play coupon, discount, rebate or rake shall be reckoned in the same manner as for the computation of casino tax under the Casino Control (Casino Tax) Regulations 2010 (G.N. No. S 59/2010).