The comptroller's report
says gambling activity that already is legal in New York totals well over $ 36 billion annually.
Not exact matches
While Canadians also
say by a wide margin (45 % to 28 %) that their provincial government does a good job of managing
gambling activities, there are also serious concerns about government management of negative impacts.
It is often
said that more
gambling (including playing the lottery) takes place during economic crises, but a study carried out by researchers at Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) indicates that the opposite is true: in the last year, people have decreased the frequency of
gambling activities, the number of
gambling activities participated in and the amount of money
gambled.
«Our findings are complementary to earlier studies that showed an association between
gambling with an earlier age of onset of sexual
activities, however, participants in these samples were predominantly white,»
said Silvia Martins, MD, PhD, Mailman School associate professor of Epidemiology, and first author.
I know there's a knee - jerk reaction to
saying, hey,
gambling is not a business or trade, but again, when the
activity is extensive and routine, in addition to producing significant income, the IRS can and does consider the
activity as self - employment, and requires self - employment taxes.
In cases where the
gambling activity is consistent and produces sufficient income (versus,
say, an...