http://www.pokerstars.gr/en/poker/room/support/pwt-faq/

Someone has seen anything similar in any Country?

This seems to be the end of poker in Greece. Unless I'm missing something and you are able to deduct losses.

holy jesus....
seems that any day you have to end with a loosing hu session....
height of impudence....
sry for u guys

Lol wtf...?

Online poker will be dead in 3 years...

governments are absolutely ******ed.

Would appreciate any info/solution to this from your experience...
Also if someone has relocated somewhere in order to grind online would be thanks to hear the procedure

gg greece

ffs tax us but on a monthly base, not daily .
if not there is no way that anyone will play poker on stars/tilt .Cant believe stars//tilt have not forseen that

EDIT: You are for the day you ve made a profit. Beyond that, the level of the tax depends on the variance of the games you play. If let's say you play high buy in tournaments, you could have one big score of 100,000 amidst a bunch of losing days. The effective tax rate is 20%. The truth however is that most tournament players have some winning days sprinkled along as well, so the effective rate is going to be higher.

OTOH, if you are playing cash and SNGs and you have a mix of winning and losing days, then your effective tax rate gets far higher.

By stakes, I am understanding they mean your cash or tournament buy in.

EDIT: Made a mistake. Effective taxation should be between 20-30%, perhaps more. I will have to see my past play to check how high it goes.

The ones who do get a really raw deal are losing players who would have to pay 15-20% on the few days they make some money. But presumably they don't get that that much.

yes this is obv coming from stars/ft

Government > Rake. WP.

leviathan is on daily basis !!!! kidding me that u think its fair.

if monday i lose 300 and tuesday win 200 i will be taxed even though i have lost money !!!

i mean a better tax evaluation policy

i thought people in greece didn't pay taxes. did things change there?

What?

taxes on a monthly or even better yearly basis,not on daily

Bye bye Greek P* players

no need for this..

Ok. I ve made some calculations.

On one year when I was mainly playing MTT-SNG, my effective taxation with the new regulations would have been 80%.

On another year where I had one big score, taxation would have been 30%.

Those guys are idiots.

Unbelievable. Anybody know the backstory on how this happened? Like is it a deliberate attempt by conservative politicians to sabotage poker but make it look like they are just asking for some regulations? Just a money grab without anyone realizing they are going to make far less off of doing it daily than monthly as they kill the market?

Can't see how any Greek player will be affected by this tax.

lol. A+

RIP Greece...

not time for jokes actually.

There are two scenarios:

a. They are outright idiots driven by the urgency to show huge expected income to future budgets.

b. They want to privilege the incumbent state owned operator and the interests that control it.

Or some combination thereof.