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Online Gambling: Legalize it?
Over and over again, internet gambling bills are being defeated here in the U.S. This just shows that open online gambling and online poker in America are still a ways off. The country has always been fairly strict about gambling laws and regulations, but seems to give a little bit here and there. The only way to really boost the online gambling industry is to consider the pros and cons of having it legalized here in the country. Here is a list of some of the pros and cons of having online poker legalized in the United States.
Legalized online gambling actually offers some benefits to gamblers, gambling mediums, as well as the government. To start out, we will talk about how it affects the gamblers. Online gambling can be a risky business for gamblers as many times they will win big but never receive a check. There are a lot of scam artists out there taking advantage of gamers. Legalized gambling will not do away with this fact, but it can help you to find better and more secure sites. You could look for sites that are licensed with the state and hopefully stay from any type of fraud. These licensed sites would provide reliable and honest sites for online poker and sports betting. This will also help gamblers who live in states that do not currently allow gambling. There are people in these states that get online to play a few hands of online poker and are considered felons. This would open up the industry to a lot more people who enjoy the rush of it.
Gambling websites gain a lot because they can retain large financial institutions such as VISA and MasterCard who just dropped out of all online gambling sites here in the U.S. Gambling websites would not have to be worried about being involved in illegal actions and can work to improve the site for customers and turning over a profit. This would also free up time for the Government to attack other illegal acts instead of just gambling. Not only that, the government would profit from revenues generated from the online poker sites.
The cons include those people who would hate to see gambling overrun the country. There are many conservatives who analyze the addictive qualities of gambling and find the riskiness of it an unhealthy practice for Americans. Also, there are a lot of sites that would rather stay out of country and find under-the-table forms of transactions in order to avoid taxes on their earnings in the U.S. These few hangups probably won’t come into consideration for a while, however, since the U.S. is still a long ways off of getting to that point.
Casino Tax Rebates
Casino tax rebates can be in your fingers in only a few weeks. Did you visit the United States and gamble, win money and have some withheld? Do you want your money back? Are you a citizen of another country, and not of the United States? If you answered yes to these questions, you may be eligible to get up to 30% of your casino tax rebates back within a few weeks.
Our company offers you the opportunity to get casino tax rebates. This is a completely legal process that deals with the IRS and many other government agencies, on your behalf. There are hundreds of people that sit for hours on the phone with the IRS and still get no answers and no satisfaction. If you live in and are a citizen of a country other than the United States, have a valid government issued identification card and won money while gambling in the United States, you can get casino tax rebates in most cases. Casino tax rebates are the amount of money that was withheld from your winnings, before they were even handed to you. Remember when you won the money, an attendant asked you about your citizenship? When he or she reported back to the cashier with this information since you are not a United States citizen, there was 30% of your money withheld for the IRS withholding tax. Why should you have to pay taxes in the United States when you dont live there?
Any winnings of more than $600 from a lottery have the 30% withholding tax taken out. Any winnings in the US of more than $1,200 from bingo or slot machines will also have that withholding tax taken out. If you won more than $1,500 from keno or more than $600 from dog races, horse races or jai alai or won any money from poker, we can help. The fact that your citizenship alone causes you to have to pay a tax is ludicrous. Our company thinks that you should be able to keep all of your winnings in your pocket. Therefore, we offer casino tax rebates. Casino tax rebates are simply getting you back the money that was kept from you in withholding taxes.
Our company will require up to 8 weeks to get an ITIN number for you from the IRS. If you already have an ITIN number, this cuts your waiting time down by half. After the ITIN number is received, we fill out the necessary paperwork on your behalf and send it to the requiring agencies. It can take up to a total of an additional 8 weeks to get your check, but on average our customers see their money within 3 weeks. Once you get your check in the mail, we are notified either by you or by the IRS that your money has arrived. We will then send out an invoice that must be paid immediately. We wait for you to get paid before we ever ask for our fee. There are no hidden fees or stipulations, this is as easy as it gets.