PA Small Games of Chance PA E-Filing Date January 30, 2017

The Department of Revenue has established the E-Filing date for all of our Sienna POS Ticket system and Sienna Ticket system customers.

All club licensees with proceeds in excess of $20,000 in 2016 calendar year are required to submit annual reports to the Department of Revenue by Feb. 1, 2017, for the 2016 year.

Annual report filing information is accessible at www.revenue.state.pa.us/SGOC when available.

However those that are E-filing such as our valued Sienna customers that made over $20,000, the Department of Revenue will obtain our customers files on Monday January 30th, 2017.

The PA Department of Revenue will then process and post all of our Sienna customers reports on the PA Department of Revenue's website on Tuesday January 31st, 2017.

We are currently performing 2016 Pre File Audit reports for our valued customers. If are a current Sienna customer and you have not yet been contacted to discuss the results of your Audit, you will be contacted within the next 7 to 10 days. If for whatever reason we have not contacted you by Friday 1/20/2017 please contact us at 844-GET-SGOC - (844) 438-7462 and we will review your Pre File Audit report results. We are diligent so we expect to have all of our customers reviewed by 1/20/2017.

Please note: All Sienna POS Ticket system and Sienna Ticket system customers simply use our system to manage their Bar's sales and Ticket activity. Bartender reconcilement for Food and Beverage and Tickets. In addition to being an invaluable tool in identifying employee theft, reconciling previous business day's activity is a breeze with our Bar Z and Ticket Z reports.
Sienna creates all of the PA BLCE Schedule reports and we E-File on your behalf with the PA Department of Revenue.

Re-Keying your Activity into a 3rd party's website??  Why??
There is no need to re-key your activity into a website as the activity is already in our Sienna POS Ticket system.
If you are not a Sienna customer and you are paying a 3rd party to re-key into a 3rd party website, you may want to consider re-keying into the State's website as there is no cost to re-key into the PA Department of Revenue's website. As mentioned, there is NO re-keying of any activity if you are using our Sienna POS Ticket system or Sienna Ticket system.

Our Daily Drawing Kiosk feature is now available at no additional cost to our customers that are current with their Maintenance and Support. We will be posting a video to our website soon showing the Drawing kiosk while it is being used by one of our customers. The Drawing Kiosk feature eliminates the need for a member to sign a tablet or 'book' as the member's card is scanned and the member is registered for a drawing. Sienna can handle an unlimited number of Daily and/or Weekly Drawings. All activity entered into the Drawing Kiosk is used to create the BLCE Schedule 2C and BLCE Schedule 3 Drawing winners reports. Of course the activity is also reported to the PA Department of Revenue as required, with NO re-keying of activity.

For more information call 844-GET-SGOC - (844) 438-7462 or email support@myersintsystems.com.

~Think out of the Jar
www.myersintsystem.com

Resources:
http://www.revenue.pa.gov/FormsandPublications/FormsforBusinesses/Documents/Small%20Games%20of%20Chance/2017_rev-706.pdf

http://www.revenue.pa.gov/FormsandPublications/FormsforBusinesses/Documents/Small%20Games%20of%20Chance/sgoc_overview.pdf

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PA SGOC Filing Deadline Extended - New Deadline Date not yet announced

PA Department of Revenue presses 'pause' on accepting 2014 activity being entered on their website until technical issues are resolved.  They also officially announce they will be extending the filing deadline date.

References:
http://www.revenue.pa.gov/GeneralTaxInformation/Tax%20Types%20and%20Information/Pages/Small%20Games%20of%20Chance/SGOC%20-%20Eligible%20Organizations%20and%20Club%20Licensees.aspx#.VMoHJ_54pK0

PA BLCE Small Games of Chance Website gets a new Look

The PA Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement (and the PA State Police) have been updated and seems friendlier and appears to be easier to navigate.

Check out the new look for yourself…

http://www.psp.pa.gov/LCE/Pages/Small-Games-of-Chance.aspx#.VAjnW4d0wr0

Don't forget there is only ONE Food and Beverage Point of Sale and Ticket Tracking, Recording and Reporting system that files electronically with the PA Department of Revenue AND Creates ALL of the PA BLCE Recommended Schedules!   The Sienna Database System! 
You can find us here:  www.myersintsystems.com
OR
email us at support@myersintsystems.com OR Call 844-GET-SGOC - (844) 438-7462
and Schedule a Demo of our system!

 

 

 

PA Small Games of Chance YouTube Video

Even though the presentation is in front of Catholic Church/Non Profit licensee's, I strongly suggest you at least listen to the presentation as Officer Todd Merlina does an excellent job explaining the recent law changes. 

Below is the video description posted with the YouTube video:

Published on Feb 27, 2014
Todd Merlina is an Enforcement Supervisor with the Pennsylvania State Police, Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement. He provided this training on the PA Small Games of Chance laws and regulations on February 12, 2014 at the Cardinal Keeler Center, Harrisburg. This training is to help individuals be more aware of illegal gambling and to understand how to conduct games of chance for the purpose of raising funds legally. More information is available at http://www.Lce.state.pa.us

You can find the YouTube video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIHd4rE-b6k

Note:
Customers and/or Business Partners of Myers Integrated Systems, LLC that registered to access our 'Insiders Only Forum' have known about the video above for several weeks.  

PA Liquor Control Enforcement Bureau’s PowerPoint presentation Breakdown

Below are several excerpts from our review of the PA Liquor Control Enforcement Bureau’s latest PowerPoint presentation.   

                                                                                                     

If you are a current customer of any of our SDS family of software products you can register for access to our SDS Forum where you can read our comprehensive analysis of PA Small Games of Chance Laws and how it impacts you.  Our customers received an email last week letting them know they can register in our forum and begin reading our review of the BLCE’s PowerPoint. 

If you are one of our customers and you did NOT receive an email from us last week please email us at support@myersintsystems.com and supply your customer name and contact information.  Please reference SGOC Forum access in the subject line.

pasmallgamesofchance.blogspot.com

We will continue to post general updates regarding PA SGOC laws on this blog, however our in-depth analysis will be accessible only to our customers and partners. 

Myers Integrated Systems, LLC is the LONE PIONEER of the premier and most comprehensive PA Small Games of Chance Tracking, Recording and Reporting System and we are proud to now offer our Sienna Point of Sale System that has many features including tracking inventory, producing drink slips (instead of drink chips) with expiration dates (if you want) and many more features.  Our POS system is so easy to use you can literally start entering your products and inventory within 1 minute of logging into the system.

Our Insiders Only Forum is one of the many benefits of selecting the only Point of Sale/Small Games of Chance Tracking system ever approved by the PA Department of Revenue.

You can check out our website by clicking here.

Below our Excerpts of our BLCE's Powerpoint Breakdown from our Insiders Only Forum:

We strongly recommend you download and read the PowerPoint posted for yourself.  If you have questions regarding Pennsylvania Small Games of Chance laws call your local PA Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement office.   The PowerPoint can be found here.

~D. Kelly Myers

www.myersintsystems.com

Resources:

http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/hide_-_liquor_control_enforcement/5900/small_games_of_chance/501941

http://www.myersintsystems.com/forum.html

PA SGOC - Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement Posts Updated Interpretation

The Pennsylvania BLCE has posted their updated interpretation of the PA Small Games of Chance laws via a Small Games of Chance Charitable Organization PowerPoint Presentation file you can download.

You can download the pdf file by clicking on the link below;

http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/document/1422826/sgoc_-_public-_eligable_organizations-clubs_pdf

We will be reviewing this updated PowerPoint/PDF and we will update this blog if there is anything new that the Bureau's Interpretation may identify that we have not already previously listed and/or addressed.

Hope you are all having a safe and fun 4th of July and spending time with your family and friends.

God Bless all of our current and past US military soldiers for our being able to celebrate our freedom.

Resources:

http://www.lce.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/hide_-_liquor_control_enforcement/5900/small_games_of_chance/501941

PA SGOC Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement Publishes updated Schedules

The PA BLCE published new and updated Schedules for all SGOC licensees. 

As of this blog post (April 27, 2014), The bottom of the PA BLCE SGOC page still has a message stating they are reviewing recent changes, however it appears they posted their interpretation and as previously reported in this blog, the PA BLCE interpretation is 'in-line' with the PA Department of Revenue's published interpretation.

What’s old?

You will want to ignore the last document listed on the site as it appears to be an older version of the Bureau’s interpretation.  The document references of $5000 max payout and keeping winners information for prizes $101.  These totals are no longer accurate.  The current total requirements are stated in the first pdf file listed which is the ‘Explanation of SGOC Schedules”.

Ignore this document;

 

 

What’s new?

The Schedule 3 description clearly states (as does the PA Dept. of Revenues) that licensees requirement for recording prizes in excess of $600.  I personally know of many organizations that are still recording the winners over $100.  Please note that you can continue to record the winners information for the over $100 winners if you wish, however the requirement is now greater than $600 so you do not have to keep winners information if it is not greater than $600.

    Schedule 3 description;

Schedule 8, Race Night Records

Ignore Schedule 7, Pools as it is not legal and will not be used;

Are there any organizations that are planning on having the Race Nights?  If so, please know you can only have 1 every calendar month. 

Of course our Sienna Database System will be modified to include the Schedule 8 Race Night. 

If you have any questions or comments or would like a demonstration of our Point of Sale and/or SDS Small Games of Chance Compliance systems please leave a comment and/or contact us at DKellyMyers@myersintsystems.com or call 1-844-GET-SGOC (1-844-438-7462).

Resources:
http://www.lce.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/hide_-_liquor_control_enforcement/5900/small_games_of_chance_schedules/501941