Paper Talk

[Flame]

Reported in a couple of papers, Cameron will bring back Betting Tax,

 

[Irish Stamp]

Depends how he goes about bringing it back and how the revenue is distributed.

 

[LUKE]

It was 20per cent when I started betting.

 

[walsworth]

Bloody hell! Where was that, Cuba?

 

[LUKE]

Ireland in the early to mid 80s.Early prices didn't really exist and if you wanted to back a Vincent o BRien trained horse in an international race you had to take under the odds.
Forget all the talk of the post war years being a golden age for punters -the golden age is here and now.

 

[walsworth]

There must have been no chance of making it pay. Were there any illegal bookies about?

 

[LUKE]

I was young at the time-I believe a certain amount of people had special accounts.

 

[Roddy Owen]

Barney Curley did

 

[Gearoid]

Betting tax still applies but it is absorbed by the bookmakers. The last time it was passed onto the punter was 5p on the pound/euro