One of the more interesting measures announced by the UK Chancellor last Wednesday in his budget speech was the reduction of tax on proceeds from the game of bingo. There have been many theories put forward to explain the problems faced by our Bingo Clubs over recent years, including of course the smoking ban, and their predicament has also clearly not been helped by the recession, but the tax situation has also been a concern in the UK. According to all reports we hear from the online casino operators online bingo remains a very popular casino game, so it is clearly not the game of bingo itself which has fallen out of favour and therefore there must be some truth in the belief that it has been the effect of other external factors which has caused the decline. Almost all the major online casinos have shown that they believe that the game of bingo is as popular as ever, and online bingo features highly in most of their online casino games ranges. We have grown used to the fact that most traditional casino games adopted by the online casinos are offered in a variety of different formats, and online bingo is no exception. Most online casinos now offer 75 and 80 ball versions of online bingo, along with the traditional 90 ball version, with a variety of different card designs to tickle our fancy. Playing online bingo also enables players to select a wide variety of card purchase prices so that online bingo is affordable for almost every pocket. There are also linked games which operate in the same way as the Bingo Clubs used to joined forces to increase potential winnings. Clearly online bingo offers great fun for very little cost, but we also hope that something can be done to restore the social aspects of bingo which were an important feature of the Bingo Clubs.