no, especially for countries that have already given official permission to gambling sites, the state is unlikely to close it because they get a large tax from the gambling site.
Yes, I agree with you. With allowing gambling in the country, the government can have a big revenue from gambling places especially if many popular gambling sites will attract more people to play the games. The governments will permit every new gambling places, but of course, they need to obey the rule, so the owner of the gambling place doesn't have any problem in the future.
Only government gets benefits on the gambling tax that honestly it is a big tax compared to a normal business tax.
However, there are many illegal gambling sites out there that don't have any permission to run their business but still, they could run because everything in online gambling can be run without a license and get the advantage without paying tax.
Not just the government that gets the benefit in a gambling legalized area, the casinos always get to have the huge benefit as well, and it is from the tax the casino pays for these huge benefits that the government will always end up capitalizing on.
Online gambling like you said, actually have in a way made a lot of things easy, but in a way, at least, you will have to be running a server, most especially when you have a big set up, so one way or the other, even as a reputable online gambling platform, you will need to adhere to the regulations of the place where you are set up. Just thinking though, as possibly there could be a way in which a lot of online gambling platform owners could discard this part?
As you said, the owner will get a big benefit from gambling, but they need to obey the rule if they want the gambling places run without any problem. And related with online gambling, I think we can tell the hosting server we rented, we want to make a gambling site and I am sure that there will be a hosting server that allows gambling to hosted with them.
I don't know if there is a way to discard that part, but I don't want to cut because I don't want to get any problem in the future. With the gambling site owner obey the rule from the hosting server, I think they don't have any problem, and they can run their business with safe.