Confindustria said businesses would bear 43% of the funding for Italy's 2027 budget bill, with measures affecting banking, insurance, energy and gaming. Its director general, Maurizio Tarquini, urged parliament to revise provisions that reduce corporate liquidity and strengthen investment support.
Gaming businesses are among the sectors affected by the budget's fiscal measures, according to Confindustria.
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AGSI vice-president Antonio Guitto urged Italy's lawmakers to direct taxes and levies from legal gambling towards public-interest causes rather than general taxation. He said changes to products and more entertainment in physical venues would not, by themselves, improve the sector's public reputation.
AGSI vice-president Antonio Guitto has urged Italy’s lawmakers to earmark taxes and levies from legal gambling for community and public-interest purposes rather than general taxation. He said identifying how the money is used would help the sector regain credibility with institutions and the public.
OHID asked recipients of statutory gambling levy funding not to promote Safer Gambling Week. It described the event as industry-led and therefore not independent of the gambling industry.
Statutory levy recipients have been asked not to promote Safer Gambling Week by OHID. In an email, the government unit distributing the funds described the week-long event as industry-led and lacking independence from the gambling industry.
Undersecretary Alfredo Mantovano said a health ministry circular issued last August clarified that Italy's national health service covers behavioural and substance addictions. Speaking at a meeting on addictions, he said care for young people and adults with behavioural dependencies should be delivered effectively and uniformly nationwide.
Italy's health ministry clarified in a circular issued last August that the national health service covers all pathological addictions, including behavioural and substance addictions, undersecretary to the presidency of the Council of Ministers Alfredo Mantovano said.
Cielo’s ICVA recorded a 4% real decline in Brazilian retail sales in October 2026, the first full month after authorised betting operations stopped on 6 October following publication of MP 1.394/2026. Nominal retail sales rose 1.3% year on year; online sales fell 0.5% and physical retail grew 1.9%. Stellar Gaming executive Fellipe Fraga said the figures challenged claims that regulated betting was harming Brazil.
Brazilian retail sales fell 4% in real terms in October 2026, according to Cielo’s retail index, in the month authorised betting platforms left the market. It was the 17th consecutive month of contraction and the weakest October result since 2023.
The IBJR challenged the IEPS analysis of online betting’s health and social effects in Brazil, while saying player health and preventing gambling harm should be priorities. IEPS estimated annual social costs at R$38.8 billion and identified about 12.8 million people as being at risk; IBJR questioned the figures because they drew on interviews from 2022 and 2023.
Brazil's Instituto Brasileiro de Jogo Responsável (IBJR) has challenged estimates used in an analysis of online betting by the Instituto de Estudos para Políticas de Saúde (IEPS). The IEPS estimated the annual social costs of harm associated with online betting in Brazil at R$38.8bn.