Licensed providers of live sports betting and operators of virtual sports betting will respectively pay 15 percent of their gross gaming revenue (GGR) and 30 percent of their GGR, under a rule update from the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp (Pagcor).
The move is backdated to a November 2025 billing period, said the memo published on January 19.
The document – issued by Pagcor’s Electronic Gaming Licensing Department – didn’t specify what were the previous arrangements for those categories of provider.
It did say the rates were in amendments to Paycor’s Regulatory Framework for the Fees and Rates on Gaming Venue Operations, approved at a January 8 meeting of the regulator’s board.
According to publicly-available data, the new rate for live sports betting reflects a reduction from the 17.5 percent fee in effect since January 2025. In mid-2023, such rate used to be 22.5 percent, according to information from Pagcor.
For virtual sports, the rate was unchanged from the 30-percent fee introduced in January last year. Such rate is however down from 41.25 percent as of August 2023, showed the regulator’s data.
The e-gaming licensing department said in its January 19 memo that the update was “clarifying” what it termed “Pagcor share rates for sports betting”.
In other regulatory developments, a December memo from the licensing department said all Philippines-accredited “gaming system administrators” (GSAs) – whether ones with electronic casino games or ones without electronic casino games – would from April 1, 2026, each be required to pay a “minimum guaranteed fee” per month.
