Extremadura’s Directorate General for Taxes approved the gaming machine tax register for the third quarter of 2026, the report said. The register lists 2,787 authorised units in Badajoz province; companies have ten working days to inspect it and submit claims.
Operators have a limited period to review the register and challenge its entries.
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Italy’s 2027 budget plan raises the tax on slot-machine takings from 24% to 25% and on VLTs from 8.6% to 9.6%, according to reports. It also sets a €2 maximum stake and €200 maximum win for AWP machines, with a 20% tax rate for new machines offering payouts of at least 70%.
Italy's 2027 budget raises the single tax on slot-machine takings from 24% to 25% and the rate on video lottery terminals from 8.6% to 9.6%, according to the budget text. The plan also changes limits for amusement-with-prize (AWP) machines, raising the maximum stake from €1 to €2 and the maximum win from €100 to €200.
A draft of the Social Market Foundation report behind calls to double Machine Games Duty surfaced online with internal staff comments. Director Theo Bertram asked what grounds authors had for confidence that workers losing jobs would find work elsewhere, and chief economist Gideon Salutin replied there was no guarantee for individuals. The row comes before Chancellor John Healey's Budget on 28 October.
The Social Market Foundation faces uncomfortable questions after a draft of its flagship report appeared online with senior staff's internal remarks still visible. Guido Fawkes, the Westminster gossip site founded by blogger Paul Staines, put the draft out on Tuesday and said it had gone up by accident with the comments attached. The timing is poor for the think tank: the Chancellor, John Healey, sets out his Budget on Wednesday 28 October, when an increase in MGD is broadly anticipated. iGB had received no reply from the SMF when the story was published.
Lawyer Generoso Bloise examined Italian gaming-machine tax assessments in analysis. His analysis describes a €3,000 daily flat-rate taxable base and cites court decisions allowing taxpayers to rebut presumed operating periods with documentary evidence. Bloise criticised the documentary hurdles taxpayers face when contesting assessments.
Lawyer Generoso Bloise examined Italian tax assessments on gaming machines in an analysis. The article, published in PressGiochi MAG, addresses the relationship between taxpayers and the tax authority in assessments concerning the single tax on gaming machines (PREU), and describes the evidential difficulties taxpayers face when contesting payment demands.
Calabria’s second-instance tax court rejected the Revenue Agency’s appeal and upheld cancellation of a payment demand for tax year 2017. The court said gaming-machine operators may choose ordinary VAT even when entertainment tax uses a flat-rate base, and may evidence that choice through their tax return and accounts without prior notice.
Calabria's second-instance tax court rejected an appeal by the Agenzia delle Entrate and upheld the cancellation of a payment demand issued to a sole trader operating gaming machines, covering tax year 2017. The demand had included VAT calculated on a flat-rate basis in relation to entertainment tax, as well as penalties, interest and collection charges.
A dossier on a draft legislative decree published by Italy’s Senate describes automated Customs and Monopolies Agency checks on tax payments for lawful gaming machines. It says sums identified as due would be entered directly for collection, alongside proposed provisions on entertainment taxes, VAT and tax administration.