Mn Gambling Permit
Exempt/Excluded Permit for Fundraising Events
COVID-19 Update for Exempt Activities (3/17/20)
Mn Gambling Permit Application
- If holding raffle drawing as originally scheduled, you must still follow all lawful raffle conduct requirements plus any health advisory requirements.
Minnesota permits several forms of online betting, including fantasy sports and horse racing betting.Some lawmakers are interested in legalizing sports betting as well but face opposition from some of their anti-gambling colleagues and tribal gaming operators. Minnesota Statutes 349.213, subd. 3; Revenue Notice 99-11; Are purchases of gambling equipment by a 501(c)3 organization with a gambling license taxable? These organizations must pay sales tax when they purchase, lease, or rent gambling devices and equipment. Minnesota Statutes 297A.70, subd. 4; Minnesota Rule 8130.6200, subp.
- If delaying drawing date or moving drawing location, please email your Licensing Specialist with your permit number, location, and original date of your postponed activity. Publicize the delay of the raffle so people who may have purchased raffle tickets understand the reason for the delay. Your organization will have up to one year from the original date of the permit to reschedule your postponed activity date. Once the information is complete on when and where your event will take place, send the new information with an appropriate signature from the local unit of government acknowledging the activity, and signed by your CEO, to your Licensing Specialist. A new permit will be reissued to your organization with the updated information.
- If you intend to cancel a raffle, your organization will need to return any money received from sales of raffle tickets.
If you have purchased any other gambling equipment such as pull-tabs, tipboards, or paddlewheels and paddletickets, make sure that this equipment is properly secured with invoices until such time as it will be used. You may also be able to return unused equipment to the licensed distributor your organization purchased the equipment from.
Please direct any questions to your Licensing Specialist via email. This will ensure a quicker response than a telephone call at this time.
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The following information pertains to registered nonprofit organizations seeking to conduct bingo, raffles, and other forms of lawful gambling by excluded or exempt permit as allowed by Minnesota law.
You will need to determine for the calendar year:
- what type of gambling you will be conducting,
- how many events will be conducted (for raffles, the event date is the drawing date), and
- the estimated total market value of all donated and purchased prizes to be awarded.
Mn Gambling Permit Application
An organization may not conduct both exempt and excluded activity in the same calendar year.
Forms and information for the conduct of raffles, bingo, pull-tabs, tipboards, and paddlewheels.
Liquor distributors and liquor stores must have a liquor license to sell alcoholic products in Minnesota.
The Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement Division of the Department of Public Safety licenses and regulates liquor sales made by distributors. For more information, visit the Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement website.
Local authorities license and regulate liquor sales made by liquor stores. For more information about liquor licensing, contact your city office.
Mn Gambling Permits For Raffles
If you make retail sales of cigarettes and tobacco products in Minnesota, you must have a special retailer’s license. For more information, see Cigarette and Tobacco Product Taxes License Requirement for Retailers.