If your organization has had a charitable gambling license in the preceding calendar year, you must file an Annual Gambling Report this year—even if you only used the license for one day. Reports are available starting January 1 after the reporting year and must be turned in by Jan. 31.

You won’t be able to get a new gambling license if you have missing reports. The report shows how you used the money received from gambling. Before filing, make sure:

All sales taxes are paid.
All profits were used for approved purposes (charitable, religious, educational, civic, public, or patriotic).

Gambling receipts are subject to Iowa sales tax, even for non-profit organizations. Sales taxes owed as a result of gambling are payable to the Iowa Department of Revenue and not DIAL. There are very few exceptions, such as for city/county government. Visit the Iowa Department of Revenue website for more information or call 515.281.3114.

Qualified organizations can file annual gambling reports using DIAL's online licensing system.

Detailed Instructions

For step-by-step instructions on how to login to our online licensing system please follow the SAFHER Online User Guide pages 1-5.

After completing these steps, please proceed accordingly:

On the left taskbar on your screen click Entities and then Facilities. Next select your organization in the middle of the screen. At the top of the screen click on the Gambling Activity tab. A list of all Annual Gambling Reports associated with your organization will appear listed by calendar year. The status of the reports will be listed as Complete or Incomplete.
All of your reports that are Complete will say what the due date for that report was, when the report was completed, who it was completed by, and will have a clickable View Task. If you click View Task you are able to view the previously submitted report’s information.
All of your reports that are Incomplete will say what the due date for that report is, how many days until it is due or how many days it is delinquent, and will have a clickable Complete Task. If you click Complete Task you are taken into the report where you can fill it out.
Please fill out the report completely including all fields, even if the answer is “0”. Do not enter any donations or other revenues on this report; instead list only gambling receipts. You may submit your report once you have completed all fields.
Once a report has been submitted, you cannot make changes online. If you feel that you may need more time or more information to complete your report please return later and do not submit.
If you need to change any figures on the report after you submit it, print the report out, cross off what is wrong, write what is correct off to the side, write “Amended” at the top of the report, and e-mail the amended report for us to correct to [email protected].