Croatian tax authority issues 20 bans on gambling web addresses in two days
On 2 and 3 November the Croatian Tax Administration banned the operation of 20 gambling web addresses. That is more than a quarter of the 74 orders it has issued since 1 October.
Five orders on the first day, fifteen on the second
Croatia's Tax Administration (Porezna uprava) added 20 gambling web addresses to its list of blocked operators this month. The orders of 2 November cover three addresses with the name megarich, plus fantasino.com and spinhub.casino. Of the fifteen issued the next day, ten are sierra addresses ending in .casino, four are rioace addresses and one is dragonslotz1.com. The authority first announced the orders in Croatian on casinolicencijahr.com.
| Order date | Name in the address | Addresses | Number |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 November | megarich | megarich22.co, megarich52.co, megarich201.co | 3 |
| 2 November | fantasino | fantasino.com | 1 |
| 2 November | spinhub | spinhub.casino | 1 |
| 3 November | sierra | sierra1, sierra7, sierra11, sierra21, sierra77, sierra100, sierra123, sierra777, sierra888 and sierra987, all ending .casino | 10 |
| 3 November | rioace | rioace29.co, rioace30.co, rioace300.com, rioace888.com | 4 |
| 3 November | dragonslotz | dragonslotz1.com | 1 |
Third orders for two names
Megarich and rioace are on the list for the third time. The first order against megarich.com came in December 2024 and the second, against megarich122.com, in March 2025. For rioace.com an order followed in February 2025 and for rioace.do in April 2026. The new addresses differ from the old ones by a number in the name or by the ending of the domain.
When the blocking takes effect
An address is blocked at the latest 15 days after the order date on the list. For the orders of 2 November that period runs out on 17 November, and for those of 3 November a day later.
The owner or user of a domain can write to igre.na.srecu@porezna-uprava.hr within 30 days and remove the ground for the ban. The 30 days count from the fifteenth day after the order.
The legal basis
Each order rests on Article 44(3) of the General Tax Act. It allows the tax authority to prohibit further activity when a business is run online outside the special regulation that governs it, and so gains tax benefits it is not entitled to or causes damage that is hard to repair. For gambling that regulation is the Gambling Act (Zakon o igrama na sreću), and twelve companies approved by the Ministry of Finance may offer online gambling in Croatia.
390 orders since January
Since the start of 2026 the authority has issued 390 orders, 74 of them since 1 October. The whole list now holds 1,516 orders covering 1,439 addresses, because some addresses appear on it more than once. Every entry can be searched by name and order date.
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