Indian Gaming

The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe faces competition from a proposed slot machine parlor near its gaming site in southeastern Massachusetts.

The tribe wants to open a casino in Taunton. That's less than 15 miles from Raynham Park, whose owner submitted a bid for a slot license from the Massachusetts Gaming Commission.

If Raynham Park wins the license, that could affect whether the tribe shares revenues with the state. But one gaming expert views the distance between the two facilities as a favorable factor.

“It might actually be in the state’s interest to locate a slots parlor close to the casino to capture that revenue at a higher rate of taxation,” Clyde Barrow of UMass Dartmouth told The Brockton Enterprise.

H.3702, the state's gaming law, requires slot parlors to share 49 percent of gross gambling revenue with the state. The tribe promised to share 21.5 percent of net casino revenue in a compact that was rejected by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

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