Bookmakers and casinos have avoided paying around £1bn in UK tax on bets placed by British people by routing them through subsidiaries based in overseas tax havens, The Independent reveals.
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Bookie is an abbreviation for bookmaker, a person whose job it is to take people's money when they bet and to pay them money if they win. • The friends of a Midlands sports bookie sentenced to five months in prison for operating an illegal gambling operation are hosting a golfing event in his honor.
