EGP-FIPE said Italian gaming tax revenue totalled €4.298bn from January to July 2026, down 6.2% year on year. It cited a 6.4% fall in receipts from gaming machines to €3.022bn and called for support for physical venues and technological upgrades to machines.
Falling Italian gaming tax receipts, particularly from machines, underpin EGP-FIPE’s call to support physical venues and upgrade technology.
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Italy's public gambling turnover reached €164.6bn in 2025, up 4.55% from 2024, according to a report from the Ministry of Economy and Finance submitted to Parliament. The report put tax revenue at about €11.4bn; AWP and VLT turnover fell from €46.5bn in 2019 to about €31.4bn in 2025. EGP-FIPE president Emmanuele Cangianelli called for progress on reform of the land-based gambling network.
Italy's regulated gambling sector is trapped in a regulatory deadlock that risks expanding unregulated activity, trade body EGP-FIPE told the Senate's Constitutional Affairs Committee. The association criticised local restrictions on land-based operators, calling them largely ineffective for reducing problem gambling. It said the legal market's development had been stalled by repeated extensions of national concessions combined with municipal and regional rules.
Operators covered by Italy’s paid extension for physical-network gambling collection had a 30 October deadline to pay the second instalment, reportedly. The requirement applied to concessionaires, physical-network collection holders and holders of regularised collection points under ADM’s directive of 3 January 2025.
The deadline for payment of the second instalment under Italy's paid extension for physical-network gambling collection fell on 30 October, according to a report. The requirement applied to concessionaires, holders of physical-network collection and holders of regularised collection points enabled for physical-network collection.
Renato Loiero, an economic adviser to Italy’s prime minister’s office, called at the Forum Acadi 2026 in Rome for interim extensions without additional charges and a rebalancing of taxation on land-based gambling. He said the sector needed measures to maintain retail operations while monitoring problem gambling locally.
Italy's national support network for victims of domestic violence is funded almost entirely by state and EU funds plus national lottery and regulated gambling proceeds, according to a report presented to the Chamber of Deputies and. The network comprises 204 support centres, 36 shelters and 17 emergency reception facilities. In 2021 the social security institute funded 45 structures, including 17 assistance centres and 28 shelters.