Labour MP for Hucknall, Paddy Tipping has gone to the House of Commons to plead for the plight of bingo in the future. It is believed that the double taxation that is imposed on bingo is the cause of much of its present woes. This together with the smoking ban has really changed the face of bingo operators turnover and profits.
When making his plea to the House of Commons he mentioned that his efforts were aimed at preserving his local bingo club, the Byron Bingo Hall in Hucknall where he considers it a great privilege to play. He has even been invited to call the numbers on occasion, and is genuinely concerned for the future of the bingo club as well as bingo as a whole throughout the UK.
Unfortunately, despite the fact that many MP’s including Mr. Tipping support the lowering of tax for bingo in order to keep it in line with other gambling activities, and also despite the fact that Angela Eagle, The Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury has said that they were looking at proposals to help secure the future of bingo in the UK, nothing has happened. The government has denied emphatically that double taxation is not the reason why bingo is ailing throughout the country.
