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Operating in Slovakia: 30% tax, ad limits
Online gambling is legal in Slovakia on sites licensed by URHH. Since 1 December 2025 online casino and betting pay a 30% levy (27% before); unlicensed sites go on a public prohibited-offers list that internet and payment providers must block.
Operator levy30%Upfront€5,450,000Licence term10 yrsDecision time30 working daysAnnual GGR1.55B EURActive licensees22
Product by product
Every applicant needs a seat in Slovakia or another EU or EEA state (with a registered foreign representation in Slovakia if seated abroad), and a .sk web address for each licence.| Product | Status | Licensed by | Tax | Key restriction | Advertising |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online casino (slots, table games, live dealer) | Licensable | URHH, internet casino licence | 30% of the result | One .sk web address per licence; server on Slovak territory; each game assessed by an authorised testing body before use | Only for licensed games; the content code is voluntary |
| Sports betting | Licensable | URHH, internet betting licence | 30% of the result, never taken as less than 11% of winnings paid in the month | One .sk web address per licence; server on Slovak territory; horse-race betting only for a state enterprise | Only for licensed games; the voluntary code keeps live fixed-odds bets off TV and radio 06:00-22:00 for signatories |
| Online poker and card games against other players | Licensable | URHH, internet casino licence | 30% of the fee or commission the operator collects | Covered by the internet casino licence; the same .sk address and server rules apply | As for Online casino (slots, table games, live dealer) |
| State lottery and horse-race betting | State monopoly | National lottery company; a state enterprise for horse races | Reserved to the national lottery company and, for horse races, a state enterprise | State-lottery games, including online ones, only for the national lottery company; horse-race betting in Slovakia only for a state enterprise | Only for licensed games |
| Unlicensed offers | Banned | None | None | On the prohibited-offers list internet and mobile providers must block the site and payment providers must stop payments to listed accounts; operators get round it with numbered mirror domains | Promoting an unlicensed game is prohibited |
Decided25 Sep 2026URHH on blocking duty
How does Slovakia enforce its block on unlicensed sites?
Since 1 January 2026 URHH lists websites, mobile applications and bank accounts on its prohibited-offers list itself, and internet and mobile providers must then block the website. As of 2 November 2026 the list held 1,244 entries. In September 2026 URHH said several internet and mobile providers systematically get round the duty, that it has fined some, and that it is handling a case against a major mobile operator. A provider that fails to block is fined EUR 10,000 to 500,000.
Regulator and player protection in Slovakia
Self-exclusion scheme
Slovak Self-Exclusion Register (RVO)
How players exclude themselves; what it covers is in the player guide
Mandatory RG controls
deposit limits
Deposit limits or reality checks the law requires operators to offer
Which casinos & betting sites are licensed in Slovakia?
See the full official list of licensed operators and their authorised domains.
Heads-up for operators
2 items · last change 6 Nov 2026
No amendment of the Gambling Act is published with a later effective date (as of 6 November 2026). The act of 23 October 2025 amending the Gambling Act, returned by the President on 3 November 2025 (print 1075), stands at second reading in the National Council and has not been passed again; an MPs' bill amending the Act (print 1517, 28 August 2026) is at first reading.
President returns a Gambling Act amendment
The act of 23 October 2025 amending the Gambling Act was returned to the National Council on 3 November 2025 (print 1075). As of 6 November 2026 it stands at second reading and has not been passed again.
Source: 1
Not yet in force: drafts, laws adopted without a start date, and sections of the law still to be commenced. An item moves to the timeline below on the day it takes effect.
Getting licensed: apply to the URHH
The licence, its cost and the steps are in the licence guide
5 licence types: Internet casino licence; Internet betting licence; Combined licences with a land-based element; and others. Year-1 budget From €5,450,000. Fees, requirements, documents, certification and the step-by-step route are set out there.Read the licence guide
Gambling tax: 30% of the net result (GGR), online casino and betting
Detail
Online casino and online betting pay a levy of 30% of the result (stakes less winnings) since 1 December 2025; it was 27% before (Gambling Act § 71(2)-(5), § 100e; Act 261/2025).
For online betting the result counted is never less than 11% of the winnings paid in the month (§ 71(4)(a)); where players play against each other, 30% of the fee or commission. The 22% rate applies to land-based player-against-player fees, not to online games.
A monthly contribution of 0.7% finances URHH (§ 78(4)).
Slovakia's gambling tax next to neighbours and nearby markets
Each bar is the headline operator tax as that country's own page states it, for Slovakia, its neighbours and the nearest other markets (marked “nearby”) that tax gross gaming revenue or sports-betting stakes. Hover or tap a bar to see what it is made of; a tax on stakes is drawn at its weight against revenue.
Which foreign licences Slovakia accepts
Slovakia recognises none of these 8 foreign licences.
BlockedMalta (MGA)
An MGA license is not a substitute for a Slovak national license. Operators must be licensed directly by the ÚRHH.
United Kingdom (UKGC)
A UKGC license has no standing in Slovakia; a local ÚRHH license is mandatory.
Gibraltar (GRA) · Alderney (AGCC)
Not recognized within the Slovak regulatory system; a local license is required.
Isle of Man (GSC)
A Crown dependency license that is not valid for offering services in Slovakia.
Curaçao (CGB)
Curaçao-licensed operators are considered illegal and are subject to ISP and payment blocking by the ÚRHH.
Kahnawake (KGC)
This Canadian First Nations license has no legal recognition within the EU, including Slovakia.
Anjouan
This offshore license is not recognized in regulated EU markets like Slovakia.
Bonus rules: welcome bonuses allowed
Inducement ads: Allowed
Slovakia permits a wide range of bonuses and promotions for licensed operators. Regulation is guided by a developing framework and a voluntary 'Code of Responsible Advertising', and, as of 2 November 2026, the regulator's published enforcement is its list of prohibited offers (1,244 entries).
What the player can claim
- Welcome bonus
- Allowed
- VIP schemes
- Allowed
- Loyalty schemes
- Allowed
- Cashback
- Allowed
Common retention tools like VIP programmes and cashback are widely available, though not specifically detailed in the primary legislation.
What the operator can advertise
- Messages ads may not give
- Risk-Free
- Penalties
Sports bodies can be fined up to 250,000 EUR for partnerships with unlicensed operators.
No statute sets a broadcast watershed: the 06:00-22:00 limit on TV and radio ads for listed products and live fixed-odds bets is rule 18 of the voluntary Code of responsible advertising and binds only the operators that signed it. The regulator's enforcement has focused on blacklisting illegal websites and seizing unlicensed machines.
How Slovakia enforces against unlicensed operators
URHH keeps a public list of prohibited offers that internet, mobile and payment providers must block; on 2 November 2026 it held 1,244 entries (1,100 web sites, 1,096 of them still listed, and 144 accounts). In 2025 it issued 378 first-instance fines totalling EUR 1,117,600. It says several network providers systematically get round their blocking duty and that it has fined some of them.
- List of prohibited offers of 2 November 2026: 1,244 entries, 845 for running an internet game without a licence and 399 for promoting one (Gambling Act § 85(4)).
- Promoting an unlicensed game can cost a company up to EUR 250,000 (§ 96(1)(i)); URHH warned sports bodies in November 2025.
- Network and payment providers that do not block face fines up to EUR 500,000 (§ 96(1)(j)).
Enforcement cases in Slovakia: 2 recent
Material regulator actions, court rulings, and high-profile fines from 2016–2026 against operators serving Slovakia. Each entry includes the technical failure and a one-line read-across for other operators in the market.
- November 2025
Sports federations and associations
AdvertisingPublic warning: fines of up to EUR 250,000 for promoting unlicensed gamblingURHH warned on 10 November 2025 that sponsorship showing the name or logo of a foreign operator without a Slovak licence is prohibited promotion (Gambling Act § 96(1)(i)).
Read-across: A sponsorship or advertising deal with a Slovak sports body needs a Slovak licence.
- June 2018
Bratislava City Council
OtherCourt ruling overturned city-wide gambling banThe Regional Court in Bratislava found the city's blanket ban on most forms of gambling to be incompatible with the law.
Read-across: This administrative precedent affirms that municipal-level prohibitions on licensed gambling activities may be successfully challenged, which provides a degree of legal certainty for licensed land-based operators.
Market size: 1.55B EUR (2025)
Gross gaming revenue in Slovakia is approximately 1.55 billion EUR annually. The most popular form of gambling is Online casino. Online gambling represents 55% of total GGR. A culturally distinctive product in this market is TIPOS, lottery and sports betting.
GGR figure7
Licensed operators: 22
As of 10 Nov 2026, approximately 22 operators hold an active licence in Slovakia. Size your entry against this base before committing capital. Check them yourself on the official Úrad pre reguláciu hazardných hier register, which lists each licensee and its authorised domains.
Notable licensed operators
Fortuna SK
Tipsport SK
Niké
DOXXbet
Traps operators hit in Slovakia
Specific operational risks that have caught new entrants in this market. Each item is country-specific. Generic gambling-ops issues (KYC, RG tools) are not included unless they have a local twist.
Ignoring Municipal-Level Regulations for Land-Based Operations
Land-based only: municipalities can ban or restrict gambling premises by local ordinance (Gambling Act § 79(3)-(6)); ordinances adopted under the former Act 171/2005 stay valid (§ 99(2)). A URHH licence does not override them. Online licences are not affected.
Sources8
Misunderstanding Foreign Ownership Rules
A licence can be granted only to a legal person seated in Slovakia or another EU or EEA state. A Slovak applicant's foreign owners must be seated or resident in the EU, the EEA or an OECD member (Gambling Act § 36(1)), throughout the licence (§ 36(5)).
Sources8
Underestimating the Reach of the Self-Exclusion Register (RVO)
The operator must check every player against the register of excluded persons (RVO) at every login (Gambling Act § 33(2)). The register holds more than self-excluded players: people diagnosed with pathological gambling, people under a court ban, people in material need and students with a social scholarship (§ 34(2)).
Timeline: rules in force
- December 1, 2025
Online levy raised to 30%
The levy on internet casino and online betting rose from 27% to 30% of the result, first applied to December 2025 (Act 261/2025; Gambling Act § 71, § 100e).
Source: 10
- June 2019
ÚRHH Assumes Full Regulatory Authority
The newly formed ÚRHH took over all state administration duties for gambling from the Ministry of Finance and other bodies.
Source: 11
- March 2019
Act No. 30/2019 Coll. on Gambling Games Enacted
The Gambling Act (Act No. 30/2019 Coll. of 29 January 2019), in force from 1 March 2019, replaced Act No. 171/2005 Coll. and set up the internet-casino and internet-betting licences.
Source: 8
Operator myths vs reality in Slovakia
Common assumptions about gambling licensing that turn out to be wrong in practice.
- MythAn MGA or Curaçao license is sufficient to operate in the Slovak market.
- MythThe main regulatory concern is the national-level ÚRHH.Reality
For land-based sites only: municipalities do not license, but they can ban or restrict gambling premises by local ordinance (Gambling Act § 79(3)-(6)), whatever URHH has licensed.
Sources8
- MythThe high license fee is the only major barrier to entry.Reality
The fee is one part. The licence needs a company seated in Slovakia or another EU or EEA state, and a Slovak applicant's foreign owners must be seated or resident in the EU, the EEA or an OECD member (Gambling Act § 36(1)); the levy is 30% of the result every month (§ 71).
Sources8
Markets that work like Slovakia
Compared on what our records hold for each country: whether online casino, betting, poker and lottery are licensed, state-run or banned, the licensing model, what the operator tax is levied on and its band, how most advertising channels are treated, and how foreign licences are treated. A point we hold for only one of the two countries counts for nothing.
- CzechiaCheckedRomaniaIn reviewGreeceReviewedNetherlandsIn reviewPhilippinesIn review
Online casino, betting, poker and lottery licensed; licensed market; GGR tax 30–40%; most ad channels restricted; foreign licences mostly blocked.
Methodology & sources
The research behind our Slovakia coverage
Counted across every Slovakia page, not this page alone.
compiled 6 Nov 2026
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official websites
regulators, legislatures, courts
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pages cited
specific documents, not homepages
245
sourced data points
each traced to the instrument
Across every Slovakia page on this site: players, operators and the licence guide. The research report behind them cites official sources: the law, the regulator, the gazette, the courts and each platform’s own published advertising policy. Page sections not yet rewritten from the report may cite other sources.
The same research as a 67-page Slovakia report: every one of the 201 checklist questions, each answer cited to the instrument behind it.
Request the Slovakia reportOur Deep AI Scan took Slovakia through all 201 questions of our regulatory checklist, from 65 official documents, read on 6 Nov 2026. Our research team then traced every figure on this page to the document and sentence that states it. The full research report is due to go to our compliance team. Where a fact rests on a press report or a law-firm summary rather than an official document, the page says so.
Documents cited on this page
- 1National Council: print 1075
- 2URHH: Code of responsible advertising
- 3Gambling Act No. 30/2019 Coll. (Slov-Lex)
- 4URHH: list of prohibited offers, 2 November 2026
- 5URHH press release of 25 September 2026 (blocking duty)
- 6URHH press release of 10 November 2025 (sports bodies)
- 7URHH: Annual report 2025, market statistics (GGR EUR 1,554,838,589.10, all licensed games)
- 8Gambling Act No. 30/2019 Coll., version from 1 March 2026 (Slov-Lex)
- 9URHH: Register of excluded persons (RVO)
- 10Act No. 261/2025 Coll. (Slov-Lex)
- 11Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic
- 12URHH: Prohibited offers
The 10 documents this page relies on most
- Gambling Act: Act No. 30/2019 Coll. on gambling, consolidated version effective from 1 March 2026 (Slov-Lex static text)Law
- Decree No. 142/2019 Coll. on technical requirements for devices and systems, version effective 1 Jul 2020Law
- Decree No. 437/2019 Coll. on the application for expert assessment of technical devices and systems, version effective 1 Jul 2020Law
- URHH: Code of responsible advertising (Kodex zodpovednej reklamy) pageLaw
- Decree No. 445/2020 Coll. on the regulator's access to gambling data on the operator's server, version effective 1 Jul 2021Law
- Act No. 145/1995 Coll. on administrative fees, version effective 1 Nov 2026: Annex, item 140Law
- AML Act: Act No. 297/2008 Coll., version effective 17 Aug 2026Law
- URHH: List of authorised testing bodies (Zoznam poverenych skusobni)Regulator
- Act No. 595/2003 Coll. on income tax, version from 1 January 2026Law
- URHH: List of granted individual licences, XML file (header 'k 01.11.2026')Regulator
Also cited on this page
- Slov-Lex: Act No. 30/2019 on gambling games, version history
- Denník N: the vetoed law is likely to stay vetoed (press)
- Act No. 261/2025 Coll. (online levy 30% from 1 December 2025)
65 documents in all. Request the full research report for every source, answer by answer.
Looking for the player guide?
For consumer-facing information about gambling in Slovakia (tax on winnings, where to play legally, self-exclusion options), see the Slovakia player guide.
Disclaimer. This page reflects the law as we understood it on 10 Nov 2026. Rules change: always check the current position with Úrad pre reguláciu hazardných hier (ÚRHH). We are not a legal adviser.