Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance published 2024 budget figures showing €6.570bn in receipts from gaming and betting. The report also recorded €6.674bn in assessments and €6.774bn in final competence-based forecasts for gaming taxes and duties.
The figures provide operators and investors with a measure of Italy’s gaming-related state receipts in 2024.
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The Milton Friedman Institute asked the Ministry of Economy and Finance to clarify how the budget document's planned higher gaming revenue, equal to 0.03% of GDP in 2027 and 2028 and 0.02% in 2029, would be raised. It warned that further tax increases risk collapsing the land-based sector, which supports 145,000 jobs and generates about €11.5bn a year.
The Milton Friedman Institute has asked Italy's Ministry of Economy and Finance to clarify how the higher gaming revenue planned in the budget document for 2027-2029 would be raised. The institute said the Documento programmatico di bilancio (DPB) forecasts additional resources from gaming without specifying the legislative measures that would produce them.
Reportedly, Italy’s 2027 draft budget plan includes gaming measures among the revenue sources. The document assigns them 0.03% of GDP in 2027 and 2028, and 0.02% in 2029, without specifying the measures or market segments involved. The detailed provisions are expected in the budget bill.
Italy's 2027 draft budget plan, the Documento programmatico di bilancio (DPB) 2027, lists gaming measures among the sources of financing for the 2027 budget, according to the document as seen by Jamma. The plan was approved by the Council of Ministers and presented by Minister of Economy and Finance Giancarlo Giorgetti. The document states that measures on the financial sector and on gaming contribute to financing the budget, and gives the gaming measures a separate line in its table of estimated impacts.
Italy’s government included gaming measures among the sources financing its 2027 budget, according to the draft budgetary plan approved by the Council of Ministers. The plan estimates their effect at 0.03% of GDP in both 2027 and 2028, falling to 0.02% in 2029, but gives no euro amount or detail on the measures.
Italy’s public gambling market recorded €164.6 billion in stakes in 2025, up 4.55% from 2024, according to a report sent by the economy ministry to parliament. AWP and VLT stakes fell from €46.5 billion in 2019 to about €31.4 billion in 2025; EGP-FIPE president Emmanuele Cangianelli called for completion of the physical gambling network’s reorganisation.
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.