Plea for gambling sites to relocate to the UK

The Government has said its attempts to encourage gambling sites to register in the UK are not for tax purposes but to protect punters.

The thing is, most of these online gambling sites are based in tax havens such as Gibraltar. So for them to relocated to the UK, we would have to offer them the same sort of incentives. Otherwise why would they want to come here?

Is the Government with this proposal therefore saying it will give concessions to the online gambling industry? We already know the Treasury is in favour of gambling with its new casino licenses.