- Colorado casinos generated a record $185,178,613 in gaming taxes in fiscal 2026, up 4.27% from fiscal 2025.
- June slot coin-in fell 5.24% year over year to $994.25 million while slot hold rose to 8.22%.
- Taxes grew faster than adjusted gross proceeds, lifting the state’s effective take to 16.07% from 15.95%.
- Colorado limited gaming paid nearly four times the $47.2 million state sports betting produced in fiscal 2026.
DENVER – Colorado casino tax collections reached a record $185,178,613 in the 2025-26 fiscal year, a 4.27% increase over the prior year, the Colorado Division of Gaming reported Aug. 5. The year closed with June slot wagering 5.24% below the same month a year earlier.
Volume Fell While The Floors Kept More
Casinos closed the year with June volume down on both measures the division tracks. Coin in, the total run through slot machines, came to $994,251,895.05 in June, down 5.24% from $1,049,254,060.95 a year earlier and 8.05% below May. Table drop fell 3.86% year over year to $59,763,674.93.
What the floors kept did not fall as fast. Slot adjusted gross proceeds of $81,682,978.19 were off 1.16% year over year, table AGP of $13,921,169.95 rose 4.61%, and total AGP of $95,604,148.14 finished 0.36% below June 2025, the division’s June report shows.
The year ended on hold, not on traffic. Slots kept 8.22% of coin in during June, against 7.88% in June 2025. Tables kept 23.3% of drop, against 21.4%.
Players put less through the machines and lost a larger slice of it, which is why a month with 5.24% less slot action gave up only 1.16% less slot revenue. June tax collections of $18,175,881.40 came in 0.51% below June 2025.
Colorado is not among the states with online casinos, so the entire year’s proceeds came off physical floors.
The State’s Share Grew Faster Than The Industry’s
Full-year adjusted gross proceeds were $1,152,277,258.70, an increase of $38,806,955.22, or 3.46%, over fiscal 2025’s $1,113,470,303.48. Taxes rose 4.27%, or $7,580,452.93, on that base.
The two rates do not match, and the gap is the story inside the record. Colorado collected 16.07 cents of every dollar of adjusted gross proceeds in fiscal 2026, against 15.95 cents the year before. The state’s effective take widened while the industry’s own growth slowed toward zero.
“The fiscal year 2025-2026 showcased the extraordinary resilience of Colorado’s gaming sector, providing record-breaking tax revenue,” Division of Gaming Director Christopher Schroder said. “This continued success provides the state with a funding stream that supports critical beneficiaries.”
Casinos Out-Taxed Sports Betting Nearly Four To One
Sports betting draws the bigger headlines across USA gambling sites, but it is not the segment carrying Colorado’s gaming tax base. The division’s year-end sports betting report, released two days before the casino figures, put sports betting tax revenue for the same fiscal year at a record $47,204,505.70, up 28.21%, on $6,447,891,347.82 in wagers.
Colorado’s handle ran more than five times the casinos’ full-year adjusted gross proceeds and produced about a quarter as much tax. June ran the same split, with handle up 14.39% year over year to $426,103,763.23 while sports betting taxes fell 15.71% to $2,595,954.69.
Colorado has been one of the states with online sports betting since 2020, and after six years the casino floors still pay the larger bill. The division’s next monthly figures open fiscal 2027 with July results.