This Wednesday, the Executive Branch issued decree 197-26, through which it ordered the reactivation of the national plan to regulate the lottery bankspoints of sale or betting agencies and banks registered in the national territory.
As established in the document signed by President Luis Abinader, the authorities try to complete this process “the process of purification, validation and formalization” of operators in the sector.
Precisely, the National Lottery will be the institution in charge of ensuring compliance with this government provision, serving as coordinator of an advisory council that will also include other authorities.
In the case of the General Directorate of Internal Taxes (DGII), a member of the working group, it must verify compliance with tax obligations by operators in the sector, facilitate the provisional incorporation of regularized establishments into the corresponding tax regime, as well as support the inspection and control processes derived from the National Regularization Plan.
While the Ministry of Finance and Economy will have the responsibility of “prepare or propose the regulatory instruments that are necessary for said regularization”.
“The regularization of betting banks that operate throughout the national territory is declared of national interest,” says article 3 of the piece.
The Council is also made up of the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (INDOTEL), the Government Office of Information and Communication Technologies (OGTIC), the National Federation of Lottery Banks (Fenabanca), a representative of the concessionaires, the Association of Sports Betting Banks, the National Horse Racing Commission.
Likewise, the Association of Gaming Casinos and the coadjutor archbishop, Monsignor Tomás Morel. The representatives of the aforementioned bodies that are part of this initiative They will perform their functions in an honorary mannera, according to what was expressed in the letter from President Abinader.
The piece, signed on March 26, 2026, also repeals decree 295-22, nullifying the previous structure and consolidating a new institutional scheme for the supervision of banks, points of sale, sports betting, casinos and other games of chance.
