As expected, the PA LCB has lowered the Tavern gaming license fee from $2000 to $500.
Click here to read an article providing more details.
Resources:
http://triblive.com/news/adminpage/6531847-74/tavern-games-gaming?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20alltribstories%20(TribLIVE%20News)#axzz392enn6x1
Thursday, July 31, 2014
Friday, July 25, 2014
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
Friday, July 4, 2014
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;
You can download the pdf file by clicking on the link below;
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:
Friday, June 6, 2014
PA SGOC Tavern Gaming Legislation Proposals
If you have been reading this blog you would know that we
predicted (as did many of you) that the PA Legislatures would be proposing
legislation to make obtaining a Tavern Gaming license more attractive and a less
complicated event for the thousands of eligible organizations that were
originally expected to apply.
After reading an informative article from Steve Silver published
on the Philadephia Business Journal website (see link below in the resource
section), there is proposed legislation in place that is gaining support.
I suggest you read the article, however below I list the
bullet points as it pertains to changes that will make obtaining a Tavern
Gaming license more attractive:
·
Lowers Initial fee from $4,000 to $2,000 (which
will include the cost of the license for the first year)
·
Removes the $1000 15 year FBI Background check
·
Changes owners profit from 35% to 45%
o
50% goes to State and 5% goes to local
municipality
·
Separates a Gaming violation from Liquor Code
Violation. Having a gaming violation
will no long impact Taverns Liquor License standing.
o
Gaming Violations will be fined and will lose
their license after a 3rd violation.
PA HB1932
In addition to the Tavern Gaming License information in Mr. Silvers article you will find there is optimism regarding the eventual passing
of HB1932. HB1932 will allow regulated
video gaming in liquor licensed establishments.
This would also legalize regulated electronic bingo, black jack and
other games in liquor or brewed beverage licensed establishments.
Distributors and Manufacturers will have to $10,000 just for
a license for the video games. The
vendors that sell to the distributors will have to pay a whopping $25,000 for the
first 50 machines and an additional $500 per machine after 50.
Please read the article as there is additional information
regarding the HB1932 legislation that I have not included in my summary above.
Blog writers note:
We will soon be opening up our Gaming Forum for our SDS SGOC
customers. The forum is a place where we
will post Small Games of Chance and Charity Gaming details that will not be
posted on this public Blog. We will (on occasion)
open part of the forum to specific guests.
If you are a current SDS SGOC customer and you would like
access to our Gaming forum when it is available, please email us or contact us via
our contact page and include your name and the Post and/or Fraternal
organization that you are with and we will reply with a username and password
for you to access our insiders-only Gaming forum when it becomes available.
Resources:
http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/blog/guest-comment/2014/06/pennsylvania-tavern-gaming-may-make-a-comeback.htmlSunday, April 27, 2014
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 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
Saturday, April 19, 2014
PA Small Games of Chance
As of today – April 19, 2014 – The PA LCE Bureau has not yet
published their interpretation of the recent PA Small Games of Chance Laws. As mentioned in our last blog, I have been told
by the Bureau that their interpretation will be in-line with the PA Department
of Revenue’s interpretation.
I imagine there will be at least one additional Schedule
forthcoming (night at the races) so I would expect the Bureau to publish their
interpretation or at least the new Schedule sometime (hopefully before the end
of 2014).
This Blog’s Opinion:
We all know that the Governor Corbett is disappointed with
the lack of Taverns applying for a Small Games of Chance license. Don’t be surprised if we have another round
of SGOC Law changes sometime in the future.
The next round will probably make obtaining a SGOC license for Taverns more
attractive and probably also less of an effort to obtain.
SDS SGOC System update:
We recently updated our website to include our updated
brochure and several new SDS 3.0 “How to Videos”.
May is less than 2 weeks away and Small Games of Chance Licensee’s
in Pennsylvania that are not using our SDS 3.0 SGOC System will have 5 months
of Gaming activity to enter into the system if they purchase the system in
May (and more to enter if they purchase after May).
The longer you go without the system
the more game activity you will have to enter in order to file electronically
with us by the February 1, 2015 deadline.
If you want to significantly shorten the amount of time you spend
recording your gaming activity and reduce the over/short amount losses that you
may be getting, contact us or call us to schedule a demonstration of our
system.
With the introduction of our SDS Core system there is no excuse for any organization to get fined or possibly lose your SGOC license for poor record keeping or insufficient records. The SDS system provides you with the tools to easily and quickly enter your SGOC activity into the system. After entering your activity you can produce ALL PA BLCE schedules AND we will report your 2014 SGOC Activity electronically with the PA Department of Revenue in early 2015 (you will not have to key in your activity into the states website).
We have published a list of some of our customers on our
site, feel free to contact any of our customers and ask them if they like the system.
Note: Only customers that granted us permission to
list them are listed on our site.
Have a Blessed and Happy Easter!
~D. Kelly Myers
PS.
Lets Go Pens!!
Lets Go Pens!!
Lets Go Bucs!!
Monday, March 17, 2014
Luck running out for PA SGOC organizations involved with Shenanigans!
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
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