Italy's 2027 state budget forecasts €6.607 billion in tax revenue from gambling activities, compared with €6.601 billion in revised 2026 estimates. The forecast includes €5.334 billion from the levy on gaming machines, while extra-tax revenue from Lotto, lotteries, bingo and betting is projected at €24.361 billion.
Operators and investors can assess the budget's projected tax take and the revenue assumptions tied to gambling concessions.
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Andalusia’s 2027 budget project forecasts about €168m in revenue from gaming taxes, in line with its 2026 estimate. The report describes quarterly charges for type B and C machines and a reduced €200 fee for qualifying type B.1 machines, compared with the general €900 charge. Final budget details are expected to clarify the revenue forecast and its distribution.
The draft budget for Andalucía in 2027 amounts to 54.716 million euros, a record figure. Revenue from gaming taxes is forecast at around 168 million euros, in line with the estimate for 2026.
Navarra expects gambling taxes to generate nearly €11m in its 2027 budget. The report also cites €60,000 from bingo card sales.
Navarra's draft budget for 2027 includes gambling among the areas covered by its tax revenue, according to the draft budget documentation. The documentation puts revenue from gambling fees at approximately €10.96m, with about €60,000 more expected from the sale of bingo cards. The figures are to be checked against the final official breakdown of the budget and its accompanying documents.
Receita Federal secretary Robinson Barreirinhas said Brazil’s fixed-odds betting ban would redirect spending and increase tax receipts elsewhere in 2027, reported by BNLData. The outlet contrasted the government’s estimated R$5.8bn revenue loss with R$6.3bn collected from betting between January and August 2026.
Robinson Barreirinhas, secretary of Brazil's Receita Federal, said in an interview that he is not concerned about the revenue lost through the provisional measure that banned fixed-odds betting. According to Barreirinhas, money that would have gone to betting operators will instead be spent in retail, services and goods, which he said would raise tax receipts in other sectors. He said he had no doubt that receipts from other segments would rise in 2027.
It was reported that Extremadura expects €24.55m in gambling tax revenue during 2026. The report also lists €260,000 for programmes addressing gambling addiction.
Spain’s DGOJ described prediction markets as cross-betting products in a 26 May notice, while its director general reiterated at MERGE Madrid in late October that gambling products require a licence to operate in Spain. The notice did not specify which licence applies; the article interprets the existing cross-betting category as potentially relevant. Italy’s 2013 rules allow player-to-player betting on non-sporting events, but the source says such events have not become part of a working exchange market.
Spain's DGOJ described prediction markets as player-to-player cross-betting in a 26 May notice, but did not say which licence applies, according to an analysis on an Italian gambling industry site. The author said a link to an existing cross-betting licence was an interpretation.