The Lazio regional tax court upheld Sogno di Tolosa’s appeal over the tax calculation on its 2016 betting activity. The court found that ADM had applied a 5% levy on stakes instead of the 18% rate on profits described for licensed bookmakers; the parties’ legal costs were offset.
The ruling concerns how ADM calculated betting tax for a licensed operator’s 2016 activity.
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Italy’s Court of Cassation rejected the Customs and Monopolies Agency’s appeal in a dispute over betting tax for 2015. The court upheld a more favourable calculation for the taxpayer, ruling that a stricter method for later years could not apply retroactively to that tax period.
The second-instance tax court in Calabria allowed an appeal against Italy’s Customs and Monopolies Agency (ADM) and annulled a tax assessment for 2015 totalling €51,915.31, including tax, interest and penalties. The court said evidence did not establish that the terminal enabled gambling for cash prizes, applying a Constitutional Court ruling issued during the proceedings.
Tuscany’s Regional Administrative Court overturned the Florence police chief’s 10-day suspension of a gaming hall’s public security licences, according to a report on the ruling. The court agreed that the ADM had already sanctioned the underage-entry incident and that the presence of a company partner did not establish unauthorised representation.
A company running a gaming hall in Florence won its appeal before the Tuscany regional administrative court, whose Second Section annulled the police chief's order suspending its public security licences for ten days. The judges reached the decision in their chambers session of 29 September 2026.
The Catania review court overturned the order validating the seizure of goods from a shop in Acireale investigated over alleged illegal betting collection. It sent the records to prosecutors for the immediate return of the seized property. The ruling concerned the seizure and was not a final decision on the allegations.
The Catania review court has annulled the decree validating an evidential seizure issued in an investigation into an alleged illegal betting collection point in Acireale. The judge ordered the case records to be sent to prosecutors so that the goods seized from the business, a stationery shop in the town, could be returned immediately.
Italy’s Constitutional Court ruled that the fixed €50,000 minimum sanction for breaches of the gambling advertising ban was illegitimate, according to lawyer Stefano Sbordoni’s account of the decision. Sbordoni said the minimum prevented sanctions from reflecting differences in the seriousness of violations; broader questions about the ban remain open.
The Constitutional Court ruling in judgment 172 of 2026 concerns the sanctions regime set by the Decreto Dignità for violations of the ban on gambling advertising, according to lawyer Stefano Sbordoni. Sbordoni said the fixed minimum sanction of 50.000 euro applied the same penalty to conduct of very different gravity, leaving no room to weigh the actual harmfulness, the specific circumstances or the economic conditions of the sanctioned party.