Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
May the luck of the Irish be upon you all (if you wish it to be).
As of today - March 17, 2014 – The PA LCE Bureau has not yet
published their interpretation of the recent PA Small Games of Chance Laws. I have been told by the Bureau that their
interpretation will be in-line with the PA Department of Revenue’s
interpretation.
The new Schedule(s) for the Racing Games is hopefully going
to be included when the PA LCE Bureau publishes their interpretation on their
website. http://www.lce.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/hide_-_liquor_control_enforcement/5900/small_games_of_chance/501941
Below is a short list of things we are finding as
Posts/Lodges and other fraternal and social organizations inquire about our SDS
SGOC system:
Usually the person responsible for keeping the records is
the person that makes contact with us.
This person usually tells us they need to ‘convince’ the
Organizations Officers to purchase the system.
·
The officers of the club that need to be
convinced have almost never had to be responsible for keeping the records for
SGOC. They have no idea of the amount of
work it takes to manually enter and re-enter data on to the different Schedules
in addition to keeping track of the money, donations, deposits etc. They do not realize that each game MUST be
tracked, recorded and reported by serial number.
·
Sometimes the officers that do not want the club
to purchase the system have their own reason/purpose to not want to help the
club be accountable for the SGOC Activity.
Their reason/purpose for not wanting to have the system in place may be
because they may not be able to benefit from the SGOC activity as they have in
the past.
Now that the PA LCE Bureau and the PA Department of Revenue will BOTH be enforcing the recording and reporting SGOC Laws (along with local Law Enforcement officials), you can be certain that any Organization that is not being accountable for their SGOC activity will eventually be caught. In addition to requiring the organizations that have net proceeds over $20,000 to file electronically, the PA LCE Bureau and PA Department of Revenue will now arrest and prosecute people involved with inappropriate SGOC activity. Not only can your organization lose your SGOC license and be fined, persons involved will be arrested and prosecuted.
We have made our SDS SGOC system more affordable for the smaller
Posts/Lodges and other smaller Organizations by introducing our SDS Core version which
will be available soon. SDS Core will
not have the ‘bells and whistles’ that the original SDS Packages offer
but it does produce all of the PA LCE Bureau Schedules and you can file
electronically with the PA Department of Revenue via Myers Integrated Systems,
LLC.
Keep in mind the longer you go without using the SDS SGOC
System, the more you may have to pay for on-site assistance in order to bring
your 2014 SGOC Activity up to current.
We hope to have our new brochures and our latest version SDS
3.0 available within the next few weeks.
SDS 3.0 has been enhanced to make the user experience even easier than
before (most customers say that it was already intuitive and easy to begin
with!).
"May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light, may good
luck pursue you each morning and night" - Irish Blessing
