Estado de México collected US$65.2m in gambling taxes
The state gambling tax generated MX$1.172m (US$65.2m) for the State of Mexico between 2024 and July 2026, with an average daily intake of MX$1.24m (US$68,000). This figure comes from data that local media outlet Milenio obtained from the Ministry of Finance through the Mexiquense Information Access System.
The tax is collected through two channels, and casinos are not the largest contributor. Cross-betting on raffles, draws, contests, and lotteries generated MX$633m (US$35.2m) during the period, while revenue from casino tables and machines contributed MX$539m (US$30m).
Year-on-year, the trend is downward in both categories. Lotteries, raffles, and draws decreased from MX$259m (US$14m) in 2024 to MX$244m (US$13.5m) in 2025, and totaled MX$128m (US$7.1m) in the first seven months of the current year. Casinos saw a decline from MX$227.5m (US$12.6m) to MX$217.2m (US$12m) in the same annual jump, and have generated MX$94.9m (US$5m) at the start of 2026, with seven months counted, a period that cannot be directly compared to full years.
The tax mechanism explains the basis on which each peso is calculated. The Ministry of Finance takes 12 percent of the nominal value of tickets, slips, documents, objects, or records distributed for entry into each event, after deducting the prizes that were actually paid or delivered. When these documents are distributed for free, have no stated value, or their total value is less than the prize amount, the basis becomes the total value of those prizes. On top of that, a 6 percent tax is applied to the value of prizes delivered, a withholding that falls on the organizer and which they end up paying themselves if the winning ticket was never sold.
Projecting the seven months of 2026 to the full year paints a worse scenario than 2025 in both categories. At the pace from January to July, lotteries, raffles, and draws would close near MX$219m compared to MX$244m last year, and casinos would be around MX$163m against MX$217.2m, a drop in the casino segment that would approach 25 percent. This is a linear projection that does not account for seasonality but indicates a direction consistent with the decline already registered between 2024 and 2025. This data should also be read in context, because the State of Mexico is the most populated entity in the country, and this state tax coexists with the federal burden paid by operators, so what is measured here is only a portion of the total tax revenue from the activity.
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