Curaçao Gaming Licence Cost 2026: Every Fee in the LOK, and When It Is Due

Every fee in the law

Curaçao writes its licence fees into the statute. Articles 5.18 and 5.19 of the National Ordinance on Games of Chance (LOK) list them, and the Curaçao Gaming Authority’s fee schedule of 15 October 2025 repeats them almost exactly.

Fee	Amount	Paid to	When	LOK
Application, B2C or B2B	EUR 4,592	CGA	Before processing starts	art. 5.18(1)-(2)
Each beneficial owner	EUR 150	CGA	With the application	art. 5.18(1)-(2)
Each Qualified Interest holder, B2C	EUR 150	CGA	With the application	art. 5.18(1)
Each Qualified Interest holder, B2B	EUR 128	CGA	With the application	art. 5.18(2)
Each listed beneficial owner	EUR 2,551	CGA	With the application	art. 5.18(1)-(2)
B2C supervisory fee	EUR 22,960 a year	CGA	14 days after grant, then 15 January	art. 5.19(3)
B2C licence fee	EUR 24,490 a year	National Treasury	14 days after grant, then 15 January	art. 5.19(4)
B2B supervisory fee	EUR 24,490 a year	CGA	14 days after grant, then 15 January	art. 5.19(5)
Each domain or app	EUR 250	CGA	On application to use it	art. 5.18(5)
Extending or replacing games	EUR 13 per game	CGA	On application	art. 5.18(4)
Adding or changing a beneficial owner	EUR 128 each	CGA	On application	art. 5.18(7)
Changing a Qualified Interest holder	EUR 128 each	CGA	On application	art. 5.18(6)
Certificate for a service provider	EUR 383	CGA	On application	art. 5.18(3)

A B2C licence therefore costs EUR 47,450 a year, paid as two invoices to two bodies. A B2B supplier licence costs EUR 24,490 a year and pays nothing to the Treasury.

Where the CGA schedule and the statute differ

The CGA’s schedule and the LOK disagree in two places. For a supplier licence the schedule charges EUR 150 per Qualified Interest holder, while Article 5.18(2) sets EUR 128. The schedule also leaves out the EUR 13 per-game fee in Article 5.18(4). The schedule’s own closing notice says that where it and the LOK differ, the LOK prevails, so the table above follows the statute.

What a first year actually costs

The annual fee is not charged in full in the year of the grant. Article 6.1(3) makes it payable within fourteen days of the CGA’s notice of grant, pro rata over the days left in that year, and then by 15 January of each following year.

Take a B2C applicant with two beneficial owners, one Qualified Interest holder who is not an owner, and one domain, granted on 1 July 2026:

Item	EUR
Application fee	4,592
Two beneficial owners at EUR 150	300
One Qualified Interest holder at EUR 150	150
One domain	250
Annual fee pro rata, 184 of 365 days	23,920
Year one	29,212
Year two, due 15 January 2027	47,450
Year three, due 15 January 2028	47,450
Three years of regulator fees	124,112

The pro-rata line depends on how the grant day itself is counted, so treat it as accurate to a day’s fee. A licence granted on 1 January would pay the full EUR 47,450 in its first year, which is where the figure of about EUR 52,000 for year one comes from. The same applicant on a B2B supplier licence, with no domain fee, would pay EUR 66,346 over three years.

The fee is not the cost

The LOK prices the licence but not the organisation it requires. Article 5.12 obliges a licence holder to employ, full time, at least one Key Person besides the managing director who appears in the Curaçao Population Register, rising to three from 24 December 2028, and to hold premises in Curaçao used only for the licensed business. Article 5.1(4) separately requires the company to be managed by a Curaçao resident. Supplier licences carry the same Key Person and premises rule.

Salaries and rent are outside the law, and they recur every year alongside the fee. New operators under ANG 20 million in gross gaming revenue can be exempt for their first three fiscal years; the conditions are on our page on Curaçao LOK substance and the three Key Persons rule.

When you pay, and what happens if you don’t

The application fee is invoiced when the application is filed, and the CGA does not start processing until it is paid. After approval, the licence is not formally granted until the annual-fee invoices are paid.

The CGA’s collection policy sets the timetable for an unpaid annual fee:

Day	Step
1	Invoice issued, payable within 14 days
15	First reminder
29	Second reminder
43	Notice of intended suspension
57	Suspension for 21 days and notice of intended revocation
71	Revocation, removal from the licence register, entry in the enforcement register

For an approved application not yet paid, day 57 revokes the approval and rejects the application. Fees are non-refundable, and if a licence is revoked, the fee for the period it covers remains payable.

What can change

Every amount in Articles 5.18 and 5.19 can be modified by national decree. Article 5.19 also lets the annual fee be indexed each January to the consumer price index for the year to August. A figure quoted for 2026 is not guaranteed for 2027.

How it compares

Curaçao costs more to keep than Anjouan, where the published fee is EUR 17,828 to issue and the same each year after; see Anjouan licence cost. For every jurisdiction’s fees in one table, see what a gambling licence costs in 2026, and for the full picture of the regime, the Curaçao licence profile.