State of Indiana
Part of United States
Indiana was one of the first states to open after the federal prohibition on sports betting was struck down, launching in September 2019, and it has been one of the most stable since. The Indiana Gaming Commission regulates betting alongside the state's casinos and racinos, so online betting sits inside an established land-based licensing structure rather than in a separate regime built for it. Its distinguishing feature is the tax rate. Sportsbook revenue has been taxed at 9.5% of adjusted gross revenue since launch and has not moved, which makes Indiana one of the cheapest sports betting states to operate in and an outlier at a time when Ohio, Maryland, Louisiana, Illinois and North Carolina have all raised theirs. That stability is itself the story: operators modelling US state economics increasingly treat a launch rate as a floor rather than a settled figure, and Indiana is one of the few markets where that assumption has not yet been tested. Online casino is not authorised. Indiana has considered it without passing it, so sports betting is the whole of the licensed online market.
The 9.5% rate has come under scrutiny in the context of state budget pressure, which is the same route by which every other state increase has arrived. Nothing has been enacted.
Indiana has moved closer to an outright prohibition on online sweepstakes casinos after the Senate passed an amended House Bill 1052 that would define sweepstakes games in state law and empower the Indiana Gaming Commission to issue civil penalties of up to $100,000, with the bill now returning to the House for final agreement.
Iowa lawmakers have introduced HSB 586 and SSB 3040 to grant the IRGC explicit powers to shut down unlicenced sweepstakes casinos using civil injunctions and stop orders.
Indiana lawmakers are currently debating a massive 750 million dollar casino relocation to Indianapolis alongside a competing 500 million dollar proposal for Allen County as the state also weighs the future of online lottery and sweepstakes gaming.
Chicago's 10.25% sports betting tax has taken effect after operators withdrew an injunction request, though a constitutional challenge remains active while state lawmakers propose bills to preempt the city's levy.
Flutter Entertainment has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Boyd Gaming's remaining equity stake in FanDuel, a transaction valued at approximately
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