# CMS Committee calls for end to 12% duty on lottery tickets

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/03/25/cms-committee-calls-end-12-duty-lottery-tickets/
- Published: 2004-03-25T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Culture, Media and Sport Committee has today published its report on reform 
of the National Lottery. Its recommendations include the scrapping of the 12% duty
on lottery ticket sales.
The Committee noted that the Exchequer has received nearly
£5 billion in Lottery Duty since 1994/95, which is about a third of the funds raised
for good causes. It called for the lottery ticket money to be split between prizes
and money for good causes.

“We believe,” said the Committee, “that this enormous sum, taken in conjunction 
with Lottery spending in line with Government priorities, represents a double hit
on the money paid out for tickets by the public.”

It added: “the Committee can think of no better way of achieving a palpable hit 
with the Lottery-ticket-buying public than for the Government to eschew Lottery 
Duty entirely with the aim of dividing the funds thereby released between prizes(
thus enforcing the principal driver of sales) and good causes (a significant factor
in keeping players playing over the longer term).”

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The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) welcomed this recommendation
and others. It was delighted that the Committee has “condemned the undermining of
the lottery’s independence by the Government’s plans to establish an Olympic lottery
fund” and that it had also

“supported the voluntary sector’s calls for the funding of the promotion of the 
lottery to be provided by Camelot and not the lottery fund.”

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