Slot machines are legal in Germany.....under a fair number of regulations. You (as a pub, bar or restaurant) go to the city and get a permit. You admit....x-number of machines, and pay a taxation fee. Most will tell you that it's a marginal profit by the end.
If you asked me how many Germans actively play slots? I'd say it's 95-percent male-orientated....probably one German guy out of fifty.
So this week....in my town of Wiesbaden....a police raid occurred. What the cops say....they busted the maintenance facility of such machines, and this goes hand-in-hand with a two-year investigation of the region....with unlicensed slots.
Yeah, these pubs/bars....had machines in operation....with no license.
From what they figure....locally....forty-odd machines....there was a five-figure amount of untaxed income flowing back to someone.
So the parties involved....in trouble for unlicensed operations, and then dealing with the German tax folks.
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