Four Tips for Responsible Gambling 1. Understand the odds. Many of the most popular games played in casinos are based wholly or mostly on probability.  This means that if you know the number of possible total outcomes and the number of possible winning outcomes, you can calculate the probabilit...

Court Ruling Changes Withholding Tax Practice A recent court ruling may change the experience of non-US citizens who gamble at casinos in the United States for the better. As many non-US citizens have found out, occasionally to their dismay, the United States taxes most gambling winnings. In many ga...

Withholding Tax Recovery Services | Finding a Refund Management Company If you have had gambling taxes withheld from your winnings in a US casino and are not yourself a resident or citizen of the United States, you should look into having a refund management company help you to obtain a rebate on th...

Gambling Taxes: The Canada-US Tax Treaty It’s a fact: Canadians like to gamble. Whether we’re hitting the local casino for the night, or taking a jaunt down to Las Vegas for a week, we love the thrill of a game of chance, and the possibility that this time, just maybe, we’ll be the...

Casino Tax Recovery: Necessary Forms Any Canadian who has ever had to file their taxes knows that the process involves a number of forms. These are often confusing, split into sections that may not flow intuitively from one to another, and are given alphanumeric labels that, to someone not fluent in...

Are You Entitled To a Casino Tax Refund? Suppose you are a Canadian visiting the United States to do some gambling in Las Vegas, and have just won big at the casino.  The first thing you might notice once the euphoria of winning has faded is that the casino has just withheld 30% of the [&hellip...