The Impact of Stagnating Casino Revenues on State and Local Tax Receipts

Arun Srinivasan and Thomas Lambert

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: In the aftermath of the Great Recession of 2007-2009, the popular press has noted a rebound in casino revenues in some states, and some expect casino revenues to grow and increase again along with any economic recovery. However, before the recent recession, there were trends indicating stagnation or a peak of casino revenues in most states, and as the last recession has indicated, casino revenues were not “recession-proof” as most had thought previously. In fact, casino revenues in most states saw big declines. In this paper, we show that the casino revenues have stagnated or declined partially due to a saturation point being reached with regard to casino gaming in many areas of the United States. The growth rate of casino revenues as well as the tax receipts for the state governments from casinos follows an ‘S’ curve which is similar to a product life cycle curve. The introduction of more gambling venues as well as putting in slot machines at race tracks may give a temporary boost to state gambling tax receipts, but longer run trends indicate that the years of casinos showing large gains in revenues may be over unless casino operations continue to re-invent themselves.

Keywords: Casinos; Tax revenue; Life Cycle Theory; Regional Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H2 H27 R1 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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