Peru Opens 15-Day Consultation on Gambling Rules Overhaul
Peru launched a public consultation on the regulations that will govern its online gambling and sports betting market for years ahead: Ministerial Resolution No. 382-2026-MINCETUR, published in the official gazette El Peruano on October 21, opens a 15-day window - running October 22 to November 5, 2026 - on a draft supreme decree amending the regulations implementing Law No. 31557, which were approved through Supreme Decree No. 005-2023-MINCETUR.
What the draft touches
The proposed amendments cover operator obligations and prohibitions, supervision and enforcement, the transmission of operational information, audit requirements, guarantees, confiscation procedures and the criteria used to calculate fines. MINCETUR frames the goal as better clarity, predictability and effectiveness of the existing framework, drawing on experience since Law No. 31557, Peru's gambling law, entered into force. The draft would clarify requirements for licensed remote gaming and remote sports betting platforms as well as land-based sports betting rooms, and strengthen the ministry's supervisory and enforcement mechanisms. On penalties, it proposes objective criteria so fines are imposed consistently and proportionately, weighing factors such as illicit benefit, detection probability, harm caused, intent, market and consumer impact, repeat offending and the operator's financial capacity. The General Directorate of Casino Games and Slot Machines (DGJCMT) will receive, organise and assess submissions.
The tax debate running in parallel
Separately, Legislative Proposal No. 00519-2026-2031-CD, filed October 6 and sitting in committee, would raise the Selective Consumption Tax (ISC) on remote gaming and sports betting from 1% to 5% of each wager's value - the same rate government-related sources have floated since the spring - while leaving unchanged the separate tax under Law No. 31557, which charges 12% of the statutory tax base from operators' monthly net gaming income after permitted maintenance-cost deductions. Peru's regulatory tightening follows a wider regional run of operator-focused enforcement and rule changes, such as Curaçao's regulator opening a temporary portal after a cyberattack and Australia's ACMA notable-persons advertising guidance.
Key takeaways
The practical takeaway: operators have until November 5 to shape the rules on data transmission, audits, guarantees and penalty math, and any licensed Peru play will need a compliance read on both the decree and the parallel ISC bill. Caveat: this is a draft - the supreme decree and the tax bill both remain provisional until published in final form. How this story sits in the search results: the field is either short wire-rewrites of the resolution or older tax-bill coverage, and no page joins the decree's detailed scope to the revenue-side fight, so a complete explainer fills the practical gap. It is a rules-process story rather than a ranking: there is nothing to score.
Frequently asked questions
When does Peru's gambling consultation run? The consultation runs October 22 to November 5, 2026, covering Peru's online gambling rules, per Ministerial Resolution No. 382-2026-MINCETUR published in El Peruano on October 21, which opened the consultation.
What does the draft supreme decree change? Operator obligations and prohibitions, supervision and enforcement, operational-data transmission, audits, guarantees, confiscation procedures and objective fine criteria covering aspects like illicit benefit, harm and repeat offending.
Is Peru's gambling tax changing too? A bill filed October 6 - No. 00519-2026-2031-CD - would lift the ISC on remote gaming and betting from 1% to 5% of each wager, while the 12% Law No. 31557 tax on monthly net gaming income stays as it is, pending the consultation step that markets such as Curaçao's regulator have also been through.
Industry Context and Analysis
Peru's consultation is the quiet part of a fiscal story: the same market that opened under Law 31557 is now being tightened on two fronts, a decree re-writing operator obligations, audits, guarantees and fine math, and a parallel bill lifting the wager-level ISC from 1% to 5%. The fine-criteria codification matters in practice - illicit benefit, detection probability, repeat offending - because it converts penalty negotiation into a compliance calculation, and Peru's November deadline lands weeks after most operators finish their 2027 budgeting.Related coverage
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