Curaçao online gambling license cost: the CGA fee schedule

The Curaçao online gambling license cost, per the regulator’s own schedule, is €4,592 to apply and €47,450 a year for a B2C operator licence: €24,490 to the National Treasury plus €22,960 to the Curaçao Gaming Authority. A B2B supplier licence costs €24,490 a year. Per-person and per-domain fees sit on top; all-in budgets quoted beyond that are advisers’ estimates.

This is an evergreen explainer, not a news story. What this piece covers is the search results: the pages that rank for the question print figures from three different eras of Curaçao licensing, side by side, without saying which is which. So this desk went to the source. On 23 October 2026 we read the Curaçao Gaming Authority’s online gaming regulation page, which links a document titled “License Fees under de LOK”, and downloaded the PDF it points to. The document is License Fees under the National Ordinance on Games of Chance, Version 2.0, dated 15 October 2025. Every regulator figure below comes from it. The schedule carries its own caveat: the amounts “may be modified by national decree containing general measures”, and where the document and the LOK disagree, the LOK wins. Read the current version before you budget.

What the CGA’s fee schedule actually charges

The document is eight pages. The fees fit in one table.

Three definitions in the schedule decide who pays what. A UBO is a natural person holding more than ten percent of the shares, votes or ownership interests. A qualified interest holder is a person with at least ten percent of the subscribed capital or voting rights. A listed UBO is a UBO whose shares trade on an exchange, which is why it is charged per entity rather than per person.

Two lines in the document are worth more than the numbers. First: “All fees are non-refundable.” Second, on revocation: if a licence is revoked, whether or not at the holder’s request, the full fee for the period the payment covers remains payable. A licence surrendered in March does not get the rest of the year back.

How much does a Curaçao gaming licence cost in the first year?

Less than a full year’s fee, and more than the application fee. The schedule says the initial annual fees “are calculated pro-rata for the year of issuance”, payable within 14 days of the CGA notifying the company’s local director that the licence has been granted. From then on, the full annual fee is due by 15 January each year.

The schedule does not spell out the pro-rata method. As an illustration only, assuming a straight day count, which the document does not state: a B2C licence with one UBO, granted at the start of July, would pay €4,592 plus €150 at application, then roughly half of €47,450 (about €23,725) within 14 days of the grant, then the full €47,450 the following January. On those assumptions, that is about €28,467 to the regulator and the Treasury in the first calendar year and €47,450 in each full year after. Add €250 for each main domain added.

Two details catch applicants out. Under the heading “Application Approved, License not yet Granted”, the schedule says licences “are not formally granted, nor Green Seal(s) issued, until the invoices have been paid in full”. Approval is not permission. And a B2C holder receives two invoices at once, one from the CGA and one for the Curaçao government.

The schedule also records a one-off arrangement that is now history. For the first twelve months after the LOK took effect, 24 December 2024 to 24 December 2025, approved applicants were granted a licence after paying an invoice covering an initial six-month period rather than the full year, with a second six-month invoice for licences eligible to continue. After that first year, holders moved to annual invoicing. If a page you are reading quotes a six-month fee as the current price, it is describing that transition.

Curaçao online gambling license cost: the figures the search results quote, reconciled

This is the part no ranking page we read does. Each figure below appears on a page that ranks for this query, or that it cites. Each is labelled against the CGA’s Version 2.0 schedule: a regulator fee, an adviser’s estimate, or a pre-LOK or proposed figure that the current schedule does not charge.

Point Legal’s guide, which says it was last updated in June 2026 and verified against the v2.0 schedule, gets every regulator figure right. Its larger numbers are its own: a realistic all-in year-one budget of €70,000 to €110,000, settling to €55,000 to €85,000 a year. Those include incorporation, a resident director and a compliance stack. They may well be sensible. They are not fees anyone in Curaçao invoices.

GBO Licensing’s fee page, read on the same day, prints “120,000 ANG (Approximately 61,700 EUR)” for both the annual licence fee and a renewal fee each year, under a heading naming the “Curacao Gaming Commission Board (GCB)”. That matches the pre-LOK structure AGBrief tabulated in December 2023: ANG 36,000 a year plus ANG 7,000 a month, totalling ANG 120,000. None of those figures appears in the CGA’s current schedule. Read it as the price of the previous regime.

AGBrief’s December 2023 article is the most useful document of the three for understanding how the price moved, because it printed both the old fees and the planned LOK fees. The planned B2C structure was an annual ANG 48,000 (about €24,600) plus ANG 4,000 a month (about €2,050), totalling €49,200 a year plus €250 per domain per year, and AGBrief flagged it as “subject to government approval”. The enacted schedule is different in shape: two annual invoices, no monthly fee, a €47,450 total, and a one-time €250 per added main domain rather than an annual per-domain charge. A proposal is not a rule. Anyone still budgeting on the 2023 table is budgeting on a draft.

Is there a gaming tax on GGR in Curaçao?

The narrow answer is the honest one. The CGA fee schedule contains no fee linked to turnover, revenue or gross gaming revenue. Every line in it is a fixed euro amount. Point Legal prints “0% GGR tax”, and AGBrief’s 2023 tables printed 0% for both the old and the planned regime. This desk did not read Curaçao’s tax legislation, and the fee schedule is not a tax document, so we do not state that Curaçao has no gaming tax, or no tax at all. Profit tax and anything else outside the licensing fees is a question for a Curaçao tax adviser.

What happens if the annual fee is not paid?

The schedule sets out a collection ladder for annual fees, counted in days from the invoice.

A parallel ladder applies to an approved application whose first invoices go unpaid. It ends at day 57, when the approval is revoked and the application rejected on the CGA portal.

The ladder matters because of what the licence now is. The CGA’s licence conditions for an indefinite-term online gaming licence, effective as of 17 December 2025, state that the licence “is granted for an indefinite period”, without prejudice to suspension or revocation, and Article 5 makes the holder liable for the licence fee and other fees set under the ordinance. The conditions as read here set out no renewal application, so a “renewal fee” is a misnomer. The annual invoice is the renewal, and the 71-day ladder is what non-payment costs.

Why a bonus desk reads a licensing fee schedule

Because the fee is the floor a bonus budget stands on, and in Curaçao it is a flat floor. Nothing in the schedule moves with how much an operator takes in or how much it gives away. A B2C licence costs €47,450 a year whether the operator runs one welcome match or forty.

Napkin arithmetic, labelled as illustration and not operator data: €47,450 a year is about €130 a day. Spread across a hypothetical 10,000 active players, it is under €5 each a year. Spread across 1,000, it is over €47. The fee is the same; its weight per player is not. That is the opposite of a regime where a duty is levied on revenue, where a bonus can change the bill itself, which is the mechanism our piece on the freeplay rule walks through.

It is also a different shape of licence from the ones this desk has covered elsewhere. The Dutch remote licences granted in 2021 carried a fixed five-year term, with an exit plan that counts a bonus balance as money owed. New Zealand is moving to a licence allocated by auction, with bonus rules written in advance. Curaçao’s indefinite-term licence with a fixed annual invoice sits at the other end: cheap to keep, revocable in 71 days for not paying.

Frequently asked questions

How much does a Curaçao gaming license cost?

Per the Curaçao Gaming Authority’s fee schedule, Version 2.0 of 15 October 2025, an application costs €4,592 plus €150 for each UBO and qualified interest holder. A B2C operator licence then costs €47,450 a year and a B2B supplier licence €24,490 a year. Adding a domain is €250. Company set-up, staff and compliance costs come on top, and those figures are advisers’ estimates, not regulator fees.

How much is the annual fee for a Curaçao B2C license?

€47,450, invoiced as two bills: a €24,490 License Fee to the National Treasury and a €22,960 Supervisory Fee to the CGA. After the year of issuance both are due in full by 15 January. In the year the licence is granted, the first invoice is calculated pro-rata and is payable within 14 days of the CGA notifying the company’s local director of the grant.

Is there a gaming tax on GGR in Curaçao?

The CGA’s fee schedule does not charge one: every fee in it is a fixed euro sum, and none is keyed to turnover, revenue or GGR. Point Legal and AGBrief both print a 0% rate. This desk did not read Curaçao’s tax legislation, so the safe statement is the narrow one: the licensing fees do not scale with revenue. Profit and other taxes are a question for a Curaçao tax adviser.

How long does it take to get a Curaçao gaming license?

The CGA’s fee schedule sets no processing time; it says only that processing starts once the application fee is paid, and that a licence is not formally granted until the first annual invoices are paid. Point Legal, a licensing firm, estimates three to five months for a clean file, and five to seven if banking is included. That is the firm’s estimate, not a regulator’s deadline.

The terms that cost you

This is a document read, not advice, and it names no operator because a fee schedule tells you nothing about any one of them: a licence in Curaçao says nothing about a licence anywhere else, and nothing about a bonus’s terms. The figures above are the version the CGA links as of 23 October 2026, and the schedule itself says they can be changed by decree. For an operator, the sentence that costs money is in the regulator’s current schedule. For a player, 18 or over, it is in the operator’s current bonus terms. Read the current ones.