Even though her husband will be playing in South Africa this month, Sheree Murphy plans on playing online bingo with her friends at the number one Bingo operator in the UK To reduce the stress of her husband going away to play in Fifa’s 2010 world cup, Sheree has teamed up with Gala bingo and galabingo.com. Sheree will sure to be playing “World Cup Fever High 5″, this is a new game introduced by Gala bingo to make even the most boring games during the World cup more fun by offering players a chance to win £250,00.

World Cup Fever High 5′ is a rollover jackpot game which is designed with three things in mind excitement, teamwork and the most fantastic and of course enticing part is the, big prizes that are there to be won. If you are lucky enough to win at World Cup Fever High 5, you will be invited to play in the “All Winners Games” where you can win anything between £50 and £ 15,000.

Gala bingo offers a number of games if you are already suffering from the stress of the World Cup. During the months of June and July Gala bingo are offering a number of “Sheree Murphy” bingo games online, which will offer weekly jackpots up to £20k. In addition to this there will be a variety of World Cup games featuring on Gala TV, broadcast on Sky and Freesat channel 861. There are also some major great cash prizes up for grabs as well as the chance to win £250k.

Bingo lovers and players of the game who are looking to pre-occupy themselves all through the entire world cup can play the ‘World Cup Fever High 5′ game daily during the World Cup at 14.30 and 20.30 hrs. Under the extra time slot there is also this great promotional offer where players and participants get an extra chance to win big with the £1.3k Linked Jackpot game at 7:55pm every day except Fridays. What’s more is that starting Tuesday 1st June, there’s over £75,000 in Jackpots up for grabs throughout the month. Each day there will be a different World Cup winning game for players each of these have big jackpots and great value ticket prices.

The UK government has recently harmed and helped both the game of bingo and its players with their budget recently. Now, it’s not only online gaming that was affected, but the actual bingo halls all over the country that went under the spotlight.

Before the government rolled out the budget, there was considerable publicity generated by bingo hall owners about the taxes they had to pay. The reason for this is that bingo hall owners had to pay double taxed in the United Kingdom. First they pay a corporation tax and a value added tax of 15%. This is what all businesses in UK must pay. So that’s no big deal. But, bingo hall owners unlike other businesses have to pay an additional 15% of all their revenue generated. This is called the Gross Profit Tax. So, where every business in the country was paying 15% as VAT, bingo hall owners were paying 30% of their revenue as taxes. That’s almost one third of their entire profit. With the market crashing and bingo going online in such a large way, this additional taxation could put a lot of bingo hall owners out of business.

It wasn’t only the bingo hall owners who were suffering. The slot machine owners were also suffering. Before the budget they had to pay a onetime tax of 2000 pounds on each slot machine. This tax is called the Amusement Machine License Duty. With the economy crashing, 2000 pounds seemed like a lot of money.

After all the publicity regarding these taxes, Alistair Darling, in his budget supervised some cutbacks so the bingo hall owners could breathe a little easily. What he did was remove the additional 15% tax by doing away with VAT completely. This saved bingo hall owners and online gambling sites around 50 million pounds per annum. Where the recent budget did away with VAT completely, it did, however increase the GPT (Gross Profit Tax) to 20% by March end. This, though has alleviated the problem a little bit, the taxes still remain rather high.

To top this, the slot machines now have to pay 9% of their revenue as taxes instead of the previous £2000 up front. So any organisation owning bingo halls and slot machines is no better off than it was before. This is how the budget went a full circle and essentially the taxation problem still remains the same.