Gambling license in Georgia

Georgia splits its online gambling permits in two, and the split is about who is allowed to play. An ordinary permit serves the domestic market under domestic rules. An international one costs the same 100,000 lari a year and shuts the country's own citizens out entirely.

That is the first architectural decision, not a detail of the paperwork: it decides which permit you apply for, what your site has to state in two languages, and whom you must keep off the platform.

The rest of our Georgian work is on the Georgia page, and forming the entity is company registration in Georgia. Weighing regimes against one another belongs with gambling licensing.

What you get

• The domestic or international question answered first: it changes the permit, the site and the audience
• A Georgian entity with a clean tax record, since a recognised debt stops the application dead
• One permit mapped to one domain, and the count of permits your brand portfolio actually needs
• Rules of play, bilingual site notices and exclusion checks assembled before filing

What the permits cost a year

International organisation

Casino, slot machine games or betting in electronic form where citizens of Georgia may not take part: 100,000 lari a year for each of the three.

Casino games in electronic form

5,000,000 lari a year on its own. Issued on the basis of a land casino permit instead, the same activity is 100,000 a year.

Slot machine games in electronic form

1,000,000 lari a year on its own, or 100,000 where the permit rests on a slot club permit you already hold.

Betting and supply

Betting in electronic form is 100,000 lari a year, and the separate permit for supplying gambling and prize games is also 100,000.

What the permit is, and what it will not do

Permits are issued by the revenue authority under the law on licences and permits, and only to an entrepreneur registered in Georgia. The electronic permits run for five years, except where one rests on a land-based permit, when it lasts as long as that permit has left. Each covers a single website under a single domain name, so a second brand is a second permit. A permit cannot be handed to anyone else, and none is issued while a recognised tax debt stands. Changing the internet address or the place of management goes through the permit register.

What the site has to say, and who may not play

The rules you file with the authority state the address of the site, how a player registers and how the balance is managed. The site itself carries, in Georgian and English, the organiser's name, legal address, telephone, permit number, the list of games, the detailed rules and the notice of who may not take part. Under an international permit that notice names citizens of Georgia and foreign nationals under eighteen. The authority also keeps a list of barred persons: employees of budget organisations, of the national regulators and of the central bank, and members of families in the register of socially vulnerable households.

Sources: the authority and its powers of inspection — article 7; the permit types, one domain, five years, the tax-debt bar and the ban on transfer — article 11; international organisation and barred persons — articles 3 and 7(1) of the law on lotteries and games of chance; the figures — article 7(10) of the law on licence and permit fees, consolidated 25 June 2026.