Ray Ellison, owner of Broadway Bar and Grill in St. And the less they play, the less they play to pay,” said Jenner.īusiness owners - mostly bars and restaurants - also receive a percentage of the electronic pull-tab revenue for hosting the games in their establishments. “To require players to click three times instead of one time will slow the play of the game. Right now, anyone who plays an electronic pull-tab game can make a single click on the screen and an all-play option pops up. Under the DFL tax bill, those machines would be required to be changed and require three separate clicks to play each tab on the screen, making it similar to how paper pull tabs are played. This bill could not only destroy our current games but any future the charities have in electronic gambling.” “They’ve also included language to cripple our electronic pull-tabs. “Even with a conservative estimate of 25% in loss of play, that would mean 67 million dollars a year to Minnesota charities,” Jenner said. ![]() Rachel Jenner, executive director of the Charities Alliance of Minnesota, said changing the format of e-pull-tabs would hurt fundraising efforts for more than 1,100 nonprofit charities across the state that benefit from them. Charities, businesses worry proposed e-pull-tab changes will hurt their coffersĪ DFL tax bill would require changes in the look and design of electronic pull-tabs - and if it passes, the changes would become law on July 1.
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