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Rainier Allan Ronda - The Philippine Star
January 26, 2026 | 12:00am
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MANILA, Philippines — State gaming regulator Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (PAGCOR) has set its share in the gross gaming revenues (GGR) of bookies for both live and virtual sports betting.
In a memorandum order issued last Jan. 19, PAGCOR Electronic Gaming Licensing Department head Jessa Mariz Fernandez set PAGCOR’s share rates as 15 percent of the GGR for live sports games and 30 percent of the GGR of virtual sports games.
The GGR share rate was set after a Jan. 8 meeting of the PAGCOR board of directors wherein it approved amendments to the Regulatory Framework for the Fees and Rates on Gaming venue Operations.
“The above PAGCOR Share Rates shall apply retroactively to November 2025 billing period as originally scheduled,” Fernandez said.
PAGCOR has introduced a minimum guaranteed fee or MGF on all online gambling operators.
In the first tranche imposition of the MGF slated from April 1 to Sept. 30, Gaming System Administrators with electronic casino games and generate a minimum P30 million GGR a month are to be charged an MGF of P9 million, while GSAs without electronic casino games and earn a minimum P15 million GGR a month will have to pay an MGF of P3 million.
In the second tranche implementation from Oct. 1 onwards, GSAs with electronic casino games that generate a minimum monthly GGR of P35 million are required to pay a monthly MGF of P10.5 million, while those without electronic casino games and earn a GGR per month of 20 million have to pay an MGF of P4 million a month.
