It is instituted, for online circle games organised and operated under the conditions laid down by the article 14 of Law no. 2010-476 of 12 May 2010 relating to the opening up to competition and the regulation of the online gambling and games of chance sector, a levy on the sums committed by players.
This levy is payable by persons who must be subject, as operators of online circle games, to the authorisation mentioned in Article 21 of the aforementioned Law no. 2010-476 of 12 May 2010.
15% of the proceeds of this levy, up to a limit of €12,028,307 indexed each year to the forecast consumer price index excluding tobacco used in the Finance Bill for the year, is allocated to the municipalities within whose territorial jurisdiction one or more of the establishments referred to in the first paragraph of article L. 321-1 of the Internal Security Code, in proportion to the gross gaming revenue of these establishments.