Peru remote gaming and sports betting: how MINCETUR authorisation works

Peru's regime in one minute

Peru authorises each technological platform, not the company in the abstract. MINCETUR, through its Dirección General de Juegos de Casino y Máquinas Tragamonedas, grants separate authorisations for remote games (juegos a distancia) and remote sports betting (apuestas deportivas a distancia), each valid for six years and renewable.

Everything that touches the platform, from the game studios to the KYC vendor, has to appear in MINCETUR's register of linked service providers. That register, more than the licence itself, is what shapes a Peruvian supply chain.

Peru at a glance

From law to enforcement: the timeline

Peru moved from a law on paper to a working market in about eighteen months. The dates below explain why authorisations and tax obligations started at different moments.

Peru remote gaming milestones

Who can apply, and how

Three corporate routes are open: a Peruvian company, a branch of a foreign company, or, since Ley 31806, a foreign company applying directly as a non-resident. Each needs a legal representative resident in Peru with registered powers.

The application goes to MINCETUR online with corporate and ownership documents, suitability checks on shareholders and directors, the certification reports, the guarantee, the domain to be used and a sworn list of every linked service provider with its MINCETUR registration code. Consultants who handle these files describe typical timelines of roughly nine to fourteen months, shorter for platforms already certified in other regulated markets; MINCETUR itself does not publish a service-level target.

Money on the table

The official filing fee is small; the guarantee is the real cost. It equals the higher of 600 tax units (UIT) or 3 % of the prior year's net income, per authorisation, and can be posted as cash, a bank letter of guarantee or a surety policy.

Peruvian fees and taxes, checked September 2026

Non-resident authorised operators file the 12 % tax monthly with SUNAT and may pay in soles or US dollars, choosing the currency in January for the whole year. They are exempt from keeping Peruvian accounting books for player bets.

Certification and the linked-provider register

Before launch, the platform and its games must be certified by a laboratory authorised by MINCETUR against its published technical standards, and every provider whose service is linked to the platform must be registered. Material changes to the platform require re-certification before deployment.

Specialist sources count eight authorised laboratories, which include the international test houses familiar from Europe and Latin America, and more than 360 registered service providers by August 2026. Operators also file an annual operational audit report and an integrity and security assessment after launch, and send consolidated daily data to MINCETUR's data centre.

• Game studios, platform vendors, live studios and aggregators all sit on the provider register.
• Each game offered must be covered by a certificate from an authorised laboratory.
• Domains must be registered with MINCETUR; lawful operators commonly use .bet.pe or .pe addresses.
• Clocks and reporting run on Peruvian time (GMT-5).

Players, residence and responsible play

The Peruvian rules treat a player as resident in Peru when the IP address or geolocation, the SIM card country code or the registered address points to Peru. That test decides both who needs a Peruvian-authorised platform and who triggers the ISC.

Accounts are for adults only, with identity verification, self-exclusion and deposit controls. Fiscal results followed: tax collections linked to casinos, slots and remote betting reached PEN 419.5 million between January and November 2025.

Supplying games into a Peruvian platform

Peru is one of the few Latin American markets where the supply side is registered by name, so the first question for any content source is whether it appears on MINCETUR's linked-provider register and whether its games hold certificates from an authorised laboratory. Ask it of every studio and every aggregator before you sign.

On the integration side, a Peruvian lobby is built the same way as any regulated one: only certified titles, only studios that accept Peru. Through our API for casino game aggregation each title is described by studio, category, currency and market, so the Peru lobby can be filtered precisely, and launching with the player's country applies the studio's territory list automatically. The wallet is seamless, so every stake and payout lands in your own ledger, which is where the monthly SUNAT figures come from. Peru's sports betting authorisation is the bigger of the two in the number of licences, and our sportsbook integration runs on the same wallet as casino and live dealer content from studios such as Pragmatic Play Live or Evolution.

Native currencies on our side include USD, EUR, BRL, MXN and ARS. For PEN, the account runs in USD (or EUR) and the operator converts on its side; contact us for your currency. Demo sessions are opened with a dedicated call, getGameDemo, isolated from real money. Our catalogue and currency list move constantly, so the API is the reference for what is live today. For a neighbouring regime with a very different structure, compare our Colombia Coljuegos guide.

Operator questions about Peru

Sources and last update

Peru's regime is set by two laws, one regulation and SUNAT tax rules; operational figures come from MINCETUR statements and specialist reports. Checked September 2026. Treat this as general information rather than legal advice, and confirm details with Peruvian counsel.

• Ley 31557 (2022) and Ley 31806 (2023) on remote games and remote sports betting.
• Decreto Supremo 005-2023-MINCETUR, published 13 October 2023, in force 9 February 2024.
• SUNAT guidance on the tax on remote games and sports betting (12 %, base and payment rules) and on the ISC (0.3 % to 30 June 2025, 1 % from 1 July 2025).
• MINCETUR statements on the 2024 transitional window (145 requests) and on authorisations granted.
• Specialist reporting on the guarantee, filing fee, authorised laboratories and the linked-provider register, published 2025-2026.
• Tax collection figure for January-November 2025, as reported in early 2026.

Last reviewed: 24 September 2026.