Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance reported gaming tax revenue of €4.724bn for January to August 2026, down €269m, or 5.4%, year on year. Indirect taxes from gaming activities totalled €3.997bn, a decline of 7.1%; receipts from gaming machines fell €185m, or 5.4%.
The figures show lower gaming tax receipts, including a decline in revenue from gaming machines.
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Kyrgyzstan’s Ministry of Finance reported KGS443m in gambling tax revenue for January to August 2026. Physical casinos contributed KGS422.7m, while slot machines and simulators generated KGS13.9m, sports betting and bookmakers KGS4m, and online and virtual casinos KGS2.8m.
Coljuegos reported that gaming revenues allocated to Colombia’s subsidised healthcare system reached COP977.22bn from January to August 2026, up 39.38% year on year. The authority attributed an 84.24% rise in online sports betting receipts partly to the football World Cup; that segment generated COP473.023bn during the period.
Brazil’s Federal Revenue collected R$9.91 billion in taxes on betting and gambling, including Caixa lotteries, from January to August 2026, according to figures released by the agency. August collections were R$1.163 billion, 20.51% below July’s R$1.463 billion; the figures include federal taxes such as IRPJ, CSLL and PIS/Cofins.
Brazil's Receita Federal reported record revenue of R$11.116bn ($2.2bn) from lotteries and fixed-odds betting between January and September 2026, exceeding the R$9.950bn collected in all of 2025. September collections of R$1.2bn reflected normal activity, with the online betting and advertising ban under Medida Provisoria 1.394/2026 taking effect on 25 September.
North Carolina's $34bn budget, signed by Governor Josh Stein in July, includes a 6% tax on prediction market operators' net trading fee revenue, citing WFAE. The tax takes effect in January and is expected to raise about $1m in the 2026-27 fiscal year. The measure adds to debate over election-related contracts on platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket.
According to, citing WFAE, North Carolina's new spending plan imposes a 6% levy on the net trading fee revenue of prediction market operators. The measure takes effect in January.