Italy’s state budget recorded more than €5.6bn in tax revenue from gaming activities between January and November 2025, according to the Treasury’s summary account. More than €4.47bn came from taxes on gaming machines.
The figures show the scale and sources of gaming-related tax receipts in Italy’s state budget.
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Italy’s Council of Ministers approved the 2026 Public Finance Document on 22 April, reporting more than €1.1bn in estimated revenue from awarding Lotto and online gaming concessions. The document also records the tax reform delegation, which includes reorganising public gaming rules, as adopted, and cites measures including a single register of public operators and frozen payments to uncertified foreign operators. It was sent to parliament and the president’s office.
Frosinone finance police found a bar with a gaming room in breach of rules intended to counter gambling addiction during inspections of commercial businesses. They imposed fines totalling more than €5,000 for the violation.
Finance police in Frosinone fined a bar with an adjoining gaming room more than €5,000 after finding a breach of rules intended to counter gambling addiction. The inspections formed part of wider checks on compliance with gambling and betting rules at commercial businesses.
TaDa Gaming and DAZN Bet agreed to add more than 86 TaDa titles to the operator’s Italian platform, the companies said. The games are certified for Italy’s regulated market, with additional titles due weekly; Octavian Lab handles distribution. TaDa Gaming business development director Ray Lee said the partnership would expand the supplier’s presence in Italy.
Bologna’s Guardia di Finanza said it found more than €1.3m in poker winnings that a player had not declared in Italy. Investigators deemed the player’s move to Malta fictitious and referred the case to the Bologna prosecutor’s office over alleged failure to declare income.
Bologna's Guardia di Finanza said it identified more than €1.3m in undeclared poker winnings held by a live poker player who had moved his residence to Malta. The player has been treated as fiscally resident in Italy and referred to the Bologna prosecutor's office over alleged failure to declare income, according to the provincial command's account of the case.
Carabinieri seized assets worth more than €500,000 from a 45-year-old man in Brindisi, Mesagne, Carovigno and Torre Santa Susanna, following an order by the Lecce court’s Prevention Measures Section. The court accepted a proposal from the Lecce Anti-Mafia District Directorate; investigators linked the man to alleged illegal gambling and betting activity.
Carabinieri have placed under preventive seizure illicit assets exceeding €500,000, including property, current accounts and commercial activities, belonging to a 45-year-old man. The order came from the Lecce court's prevention measures section, which fully accepted a proposal by the Lecce Anti-Mafia District Directorate (DDA).