Italy’s Treasury reports €4.52bn in gambling tax receipts for January–September
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Italy’s Treasury reported more than €4.52 billion in state revenue from taxes and duties on gambling activities in January–September 2026. The total included more than €3.58 billion from the levy on gaming machines and €305.48 million from gambling proceeds, according to the Treasury summary.
Italy's Treasury reported more than €4.52bn in state budget revenue from taxes and duties on gambling activities in the period January to September 2026, according to its summary account. The figures appear in the MEF's Conto Riassuntivo del Tesoro.
Of the total, more than €3.58bn came from the levy on gaming machines and devices under the September 2003 decree law. Proceeds from gaming activities contributed €305.48m. The 40% share of the single tax on skill games and prediction contests contributed €485.6m. The fixed state duty on prediction contests contributed €59m.
A 6% withholding tax on Lotto winnings contributed €460.78m. More than €362.7m came from concession fees for managing the telematic network for amusement and entertainment machines and national totalisator games. Payments by concessionaires for games on machines under article 110, comma 6, of the 1931 royal decree amounted to €1,485,701. Bingo proceeds contributed €125.5m.
The 35% share of the single tax on skill games and prediction contests contributed €405,883,524. The 25% share of the same tax contributed €219,768,531. The entertainment tax contributed €289,756,222. Lotto proceeds contributed €872,515,869.
On the expenditure side, budget payments classified by economic category included €586,013,067 for corrective items on revenue from games and lotteries.