Tuesday, March 17, 2026 6:55 PM
jhoanbaron, Colombia One
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Colombia has established a 16% national consumption tax on all online gambling and betting conducted through Decree 0240, signed on March 12, 2026, with the levy calculated on gross game revenue, defined as total bets received minus prizes paid during each bimonthly period, and with operators holding a valid Coljuegos (the state entity that regulates games of chance) concession contract obligated to collect and declare the tax before the DIAN, Colombia’s national tax authority.
The rate is applied at the moment a user deposits funds, whether as cash, electronic transfer, or cryptocurrency, into a betting account, so the tax trigger is the deposit itself and not the final prize outcome, a design that places the compliance burden on operators rather than individual users and that gives the government a predictable, bimestrally verifiable digital gambling tax base across all licensed platforms.
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