The Macau government collected just above MOP53.37 billion (US$6.60 billion) in fiscal revenue from gaming in the first seven months of 2025, up 3.4 percent from a year earlier, according to the latest data released by the city’s Financial Services Bureau.
In July alone, the government got almost MOP8.11 billion in tax from gaming, showed the official data.
Under Macau’s 10-year gaming concession system, which came into effect on January 1, 2023, the effective tax on casino gross gaming revenue (GGR) is 40 percent.
The tax-take figures for a given calendar period and the city’s casino GGR during the same time frame are not directly comparable for several reasons. These include the fact that there is typically a delay between the point at which GGR is recorded in Macau’s casino operations and the point at which tax is registered by the government as having been paid on such play.
The Macau government earlier this year reduced by circa 5 percent its 2025 forecast for Macau GGR, to MOP228 billion, from a previous projection of MOP240 billion.
The government now expects MOP88.56 billion in revenue from gaming taxes this year.
The latest data from the Financial Services Bureau show that gaming taxes accounted for 86.3 percent of the Macau government’s MOP61.86-billion in current revenue recorded in the year to July 31.
Aggregate Macau casino GGR in the seven months to July 31 was MOP140.9 billion, 6.5-percent higher than in the prior-year period.
July’s casino GGR in Macau was the best monthly performance since January 2020, just before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. It rose 19.0 percent year-on-year in July, standing at nearly MOP22.13 billion, according to official data.
In June – the month upon which the July gaming tax was calculated – casino GGR had also increased by 19.0 percent year-on-year, to MOP21.06 billion.