Internal Revenue Code Gambling Winnings

Takeaway #1: All online gambling winnings of U.S. Residents are taxable under the Internal Revenue Code. The Internal Revenue Code does not differentiate between gambling winnings from brick and mortar casinos and from online play. All gambling winnings are taxable. “But the income is earned overseas,” you say.

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Rules concerning income tax and gambling vary internationally.

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United States[edit]

In the United States, gambling wins are taxable.

The Internal Revenue Code contains a specific provision regulating income-tax deductions of gambling losses. Under Section 165(d) of the Internal Revenue Code, losses from “wagering transactions” may be deducted to the extent of gains from gambling activities.^[1] Essentially, in order to qualify for a deduction of losses from wagering, the taxpayer can only deduct up to the amount of gains he or she accrued from wagering. In Commissioner v. Groetzinger, the Supreme Court Justice Blackmun alludes to Section 165(d) which was a legislative attempt to close the door on suspected abuse of gambling loss deductions.^[2]

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Wagering Transaction[edit]

The Internal Revenue Service has ruled that a “wagering transaction” consists of three elements.^[3] First, the transaction must involve a prize. Second, the element of chance must be present. Finally, the taxpayer must give some consideration.

Section 165(d) and Professional Gamblers[edit]

In Bathalter v. Commissioner, a full-time horse-race gambler had gains of $91,000 and losses of $87,000.^[4] The taxpayer deducted the expenses under Section 162.^[5] The service argued that Section 165(d) precluded the taxpayer from engaging in gambling as a 'trade or business.'^[4] The Tax Court held that the taxpayer's gambling was a business activity and allowed the deductions.^[6] In essence, the court held that Section 165(d) only applies when a taxpayer is at a loss instead of a net gain and “serves to prevent the [taxpayer] from using that loss to offset other income.” ^[7] However, if the taxpayer has a net gain, as the horse-race gambler did, then the taxpayer may deduct the expenses under Section 162, and Section 165(d) does not apply.^[8]

Section 165(d) and Recreational Gamblers[edit]

In addition, in Valenti v. Commissioner, the court reiterated that Section 165(d) applies to professional gamblers as well as recreational gamblers.^[9] The court stated, '.. it has been held both by this Court and various courts of appeals that wagering losses cannot be deducted, except to the extent of the taxpayer's gains from wagering activities, and it has been so held even where such activities were conducted as a trade or business as opposed to a hobby.'^[10] Therefore, for example, if a recreational gambler visits a casino one Saturday and accumulates $600 of losses and $200 of gains, that recreational gambler may deduct $200 of the wagering losses (because she can only deduct an amount up to the amount of wagering gains she accrued).

United Kingdom[edit]

In the United Kingdom, wins (unless in the course of a trade) are not taxable and losses are not deductible.

Germany[edit]

In Germany, wins are taxable since July 2012 by 5% of the winnings (profit).

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^IRC Section 165(d).
2. ^480 U.S. 23, 32 (1987).
3. ^Technical Advice Memorandum 200417004.
4. ^ ^abT.C. Memo 1987-530.
5. ^IRC Section 162.
6. ^Id.
7. ^Id.
8. ^Id.
9. ^T.C. Memo 1994-483.
10. ^Id.

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Gambling and the Law®: By Professor I Nelson Rose

The Internal Revenue Code is unkind to winners -- and it doesn't much like losers, either. The federal government taxes gambling winnings at the highest rates allowed. So do the many states and even cities that impose income taxes on their residents. If you make enough money, in a high-tax state like California or New York, the top tax bracket is about 50 percent. Out of every additional dollar you take in, through work or play, governments take 50 cents.

Of course, the tax-collector first has to find out that you have won. Congress and the Internal Revenue Service know gambling is an all-cash business and few winners indeed would voluntarily report their good luck. So, statutes and regulations turn the gambling businesses, casinos, state lotteries, race tracks and even bingo halls, into agents for the IRS.

Big winners are reported to the IRS on a special Form W-2G. If winnings are to be split, as with a lottery pool, winners are reported on a Form 5754.

Pooling money to buy lottery tickets is common among employees and friends. But whether there are two or 200 in the pool, there is going to be only one winning ticket, and somebody has to turn it in. If you are that someone, make sure you fill out a Form 5754. If your share of a $5 million prize is $1 million, you do not want to be stuck with paying income tax on the entire $5 million.

Gambling has become such big business that the IRS receives nearly four million Forms W-2G and 5754 each year. This tells the tax-collectors that nearly four million big winners are out there, waiting to be taxed.

But the IRS does not always wait. The government wants to make sure it gets paid. What good does a W-2G do if the winner is a foreigner who is going to be in his own foreign country when April 15th rolls around?

So, the IRS not only wants reports filed, but often requires that a part of the winnings be withheld. As anyone who has a salary knows, withholding also allows the government to use taxpayers' money for many months, without having to pay interest.

The withholding rate for nonresident aliens is 30%. Not coincidentally, the tax rate for nonresident aliens is also 30%. So, if a citizen of a foreign country wins $1 million cash at a slot machine in Las Vegas, he will find he is only paid $700,000. The remaining $300,000 is sent to the IRS. The foreign citizen is unlikely to ever file an income tax return, but the IRS gets paid in full anyway.

Citizens of foreign countries are also, of course, usually taxed by their own governments. So some countries have treaties with the U.S., which protects those foreigners from having to pay the 30% withholding to the IRS.

U.S. citizens and resident aliens have it both better and worse than nonresident aliens. The withholding rate for gamblers living in American is only 28% (it was 20%, up to 1992). Having the IRS take $28,000 out of a jackpot of $100,000 is painful. But, it can hurt even more when tax forms are filled out. There is no 30% maximum tax for people living in the U.S., and really big winners often end up paying a lot more than 28% or 30%.

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The one good news is Nevada casinos were also able to convince the IRS that they could not keep track of players at table games. They said that when a player cashes out for $7,000, they do not know whether he started with $25 or $25,000. So it is actually written into the law that there is no withholding or even reporting of big winnings to the IRS for blackjack, baccarat, craps, roulette or the big-6 wheel.

There is another general IRS rule that says anyone paying anyone else $600 in one year is supposed to file a report. The IRS has been going after casinos and cardrooms that run tournaments, forcing them to file tax reporting forms on grand prize winners. Here the IRS has the very good argument that the operator knows exactly how much a player has paid to enter the tournament and how much the finalists are given.

Is there anything a winning player can do to lower the bite of the income tax? And what about those who gamble and lose? Which is everybody, occasionally. The law does allow players to take gambling losses off their taxes, but only up to the amounts of their winnings.

Of course, if you win, say $135,000, you can take off all gambling losses, up to that amount. If you gambled away, say $65,000, you would only have to pay taxes on the remaining, let's see: $135,000 minus $65,000 equals $70,000. The tax on $70,000 is a lot less than the tax on $135,000.

Gambling Revenues By State

Of course, you have the small problem of proving that you actually lost $65,000. Large winnings may be required to be reported to the IRS; large losses are not.

One former IRS Revenue Officer, who quit government to open his own small tax preparation firm, thought he found the answer. One of his clients won a share in a state lottery: $2.7 million, paid out over 20 years in installments of about $135,000, before taxes. The winnings were reported, but the tax return claimed gambling losses of $65,000. The IRS decided that $65,000 was a lot to lose, and it sent an agent to conduct an audit.

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The tax preparer found a man with an extremely large collection of losing lottery tickets and made a deal: he would borrow 200,000 losing tickets for a month for $500. The losing tickets were bound in stacks of 100 and shown to the IRS auditor: 45,000 instant scratch tickets, 5,000 other Massachusetts lottery tickets, and 16,000 losing tickets from racetracks throughout New England. So many losing tickets, that it would have been physically impossible for one man to have made these bets. The New York Times called it, 'one of the more visibly inept efforts at tax fraud.' They pleaded guilty eight days after being indicted.

By the way, the man who rented the tickets was not charged. It's not a crime to collect losing lottery tickets, only to use them to try and cheat the IRS.

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