Senate report records more than €11bn in Italy’s gaming sector

Italy's government department for relations with parliament submitted a report on the results of measures to combat tax and social contribution evasion to the Senate, showing that gaming-sector revenue exceeded €11bn in 2025. The document was attached to the 2026 public finance programme.

Joint inspections under a committee combating illegal gambling covered 618 gaming operations, including checks on compliance with rules protecting minors. The committee brings together the customs and monopolies agency ADM, the Guardia di Finanza, the state police and the Carabinieri for a nationwide inspection plan. ADM and police identified 22 unauthorised betting collection points. Authorities seized 149 irregular AWP machines and gaming devices, as well as 35 terminals and 20 computers used to connect to illegal gambling sites. They referred 46 people to judicial authorities and found 231 administrative violations carrying approximately €5.74m in sanctions.

Separately, Guardia di Finanza activity in gambling and betting in 2025 identified 1,049 violations, led to 379 people being reported to authorities and uncovered 70 clandestine betting collection points. It found taxable bases on which tax had been evaded of €68m for the single tax and €27.8m for the single gaming levy.

ADM has committed to developing legal gambling monitoring by integrating its systems with those of other authorities to track gambling volumes and their geographical distribution, particularly in areas at greater risk of concentrations of people with gambling disorder. Future controls will target gambling fraud and illegal betting among other high-risk activity, using risk analysis, cooperation between authorities and integrated data.