Panama's Ministry of Economy and Finance said digital services supplied from abroad to customers in the country must apply the existing 7% ITBMS. The ministry said foreign providers must register with the Dirección General de Ingresos, collect the tax and remit it to the state; it did not specify an effective date.
Digital gambling services supplied from abroad may face registration and tax-collection obligations in Panama.
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Reportedly, France’s ANJ has expanded its cooperation with advertising body ARPP to cover gambling-like online games involving monetisable digital objects. The scope includes tokens, blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Licensed operators must continue submitting marketing strategies to ANJ six months before launch for prior review.
France's gambling regulator, ANJ, has extended its cooperation with the advertising regulation body ARPP to cover advertising for online games that resemble gambling and involve monetisable digital objects such as tokens, blockchain or cryptocurrencies. ARPP will continue to act as an independent observer of commercial communications for online gambling.
Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) reported gaming tax revenue of €5.452bn for January–September 2026, down €334m, or 5.8%, year on year. Revenue from gaming machines fell by €273m, or 7%, and the MEF said this category had recorded successive declines in play and tax receipts since 2024.
Gaming tax revenue came to €5.452bn in the January to September period, according to the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), which said this was €334m, or 5.8%, less than in the same period a year earlier. On indirect taxes alone, lotteries and other gaming activities generated €4.529bn, a decline of €377m, equal to 7.7%. The ministry linked much of the €334m loss to gaming machines and devices, whose revenue dropped by €273m, or 7.0%.
Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance reported €4.52bn in tax revenue from gambling activities for the first nine months of 2026, according to its treasury account published on 5 November. Gaming machines generated about €3.59bn, representing roughly 79.3% of the revenue recorded in that category.
Italy's Ministry of Economy and Finance reported €4.52bn in tax revenue from gambling activities for the first nine months of 2026. The figure comes from the Treasury summary account at 30 September 2026, which the ministry's State General Accounting Department published on 5 November. The levy on gaming machines was the main component, at about €3.59bn.
Italy’s economy undersecretary Lucia Albano responded to a Democratic Party parliamentary question about six newly authorised online instant lotteries. She said the segment recorded €308m in sales in January-September 2026, 24% more than a year earlier, equal to 0.24% of public gaming sales; player spending was about €56m, or around 0.35% of total spending.
Italy's online instant lotteries recorded €308m in sales in the first nine months of 2026, up 24% on the same period a year earlier, economy undersecretary Lucia Albano told parliament. The segment accounted for 0.24% of total Italian public gaming sales, according to the response to a Democratic Party question on the authorisation of six new national instant lotteries with remote participation.
Italy's UIF reported that suspicious-transaction reports from gambling providers fell to 9,547 in 2024 from 12,000 in 2023, while their total value rose, according to PressGiochi's account of its Quaderno n. 36. The unit recorded about 6,400 reports in the first half of 2025, up 37%. The notebook sets out risk levels by product and channel and the roles of the MEF, ADM and Guardia di Finanza.
Italy's financial intelligence unit, the UIF, reported that suspicious-transaction reports (SOS) filed by gambling providers fell to 9,547 in 2024 from 12,000 in 2023, while the total value of the reports rose, according to the unit's Quaderno n. 36. The UIF said the decline reflected a qualitative selection of reports that the unit had encouraged. In the first half of 2025 the unit recorded about 6,400 reports, an increase of 37%.