Reopened Casinos Collected $45M in July
State tax revenue from gambling began to trickle back in last month as the state’s slots parlor and two casinos reopened for the first time since March.
State tax revenue from gambling began to trickle back in last month as the state’s slots parlor and two casinos reopened for the first time since March.
The first full month of gambling at a full-scale casino yielded more than $6.7 million in tax revenue for Massachusetts and almost $27 million in gross revenue for MGM Springfield, the Gaming Commission said Monday.
In the first nine days that it was open, gamblers lost almost $10 million to the first full-scale casino to open under Massachusetts’ 2011 expanded gaming law.
The first and only casino in Massachusetts so far has been “falling far short” of its job creation promises, and the state agency charged with overseeing the casino industry hasn’t been holding it accountable, a state audit released Monday found.