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title: "Permit and Licence Fee Planning and Budgeting"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/media-entertainment-and-sports-law-en/permit-and-licence-fee-planning-and-budgeting-en"
field: "Media, Entertainment & Sports Law"
description: "Gambling permit fees: a casino up to 5 000 000, online 5 000 000, annual payment and exemptions under the law. Legal.ge."
updated: "2026-10-15"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Permit and Licence Fee Planning and Budgeting

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/media-entertainment-and-sports-law-en/permit-and-licence-fee-planning-and-budgeting-en

## The Nature of the Permit Fee

Budgeting a gambling project begins with the one-time payment that a permit seeker pays to the state for the right to commence the activity. Under the second article of the Law of Georgia on License and Permit Fees, a license/permit fee is a one-time mandatory payment into the central budget of Georgia or into the budget of the respective autonomous republic (where the permit is issued by the government organ of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara or Abkhazia), paid by the license/permit seeker in the amount established by law.

An important exception to this one-time character concerns gambling permits: it is precisely for them that the law allows annual payment, which means that a gambling operator's fee planning must be built not on the logic of a one-off expense but on the logic of a multi-year tax burden.

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### How much is the casino permit fee?

For the whole territory with exceptions — no more than 5 000 000 lari per year; in Batumi, Bazaleti, Kobuleti and Borjomi — 250 000 lari; in Gudauri, Bakuriani, Tskaltubo and Signagi — exempt.

### Is annual payment possible?

Yes — the law allows annual payment for gambling permits: the declaration is submitted no later than every subsequent 12 months, and the first year's fee is paid before the permit.

### What exemptions exist?

Casinos in Gudauri, Bakuriani, Tskaltubo and Signagi are exempt; casinos in newly built hotels — for 10 years; Tbilisi holders are exempt from fees for a number of club permits.

### Is the fee returned on refusal?

No — on refusal the paid fee is not returned; on early cancellation the remaining part need not be paid.