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The calendar-year casino winnings figure was up a healthy 11.6% in 2021 compared with $12 billion in 2019.
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Casino winnings of $757 million in July were down almost 26.2% compared with more than $1 billion a year ago.
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Casinos that were closed through May due to the coronavirus pandemic yielded nearly no tax revenue for Nevada.
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A new report shows that Nevada casinos brought in nearly $938 million in winnings in November, down slightly from the same month a year ago.
The state collected $62.3 million in taxes based on the October 2019 figures. That’s up 9.4% from a year ago.
Nevada casinos took in nearly $1.06 billion in winnings last month - a high for 2019 and a record for September in a key index of state fiscal health.
Casinos in Nevada reported $11.9 billion in revenues in 2018, the third largest total in the state's history.
Regulators say November was a good month for casinos compared with last year, including double-digit percentage increases in house winnings on the Las Vegas Strip and in Reno and Lake Tahoe.
Nevada casinos have crossed the $1 billion revenue mark for the third consecutive month.
Nevada regulators say casinos across the state won more than $991.6 million from gamblers last month.