The Italian Government has just issued the Fiscal Law Decree, which is intended to introduce new fiscal measures jointly with the Budget bill for 2020. Not surprisingly, fiscal measures on gambling have also been introduced. One of these has, however, attracted greater attention since it introduces compulsory registration into an official unique Register for all … Read more
Article 9 of the so-called Dignity Decree (Decree-Law No. 87, dated 12 July 2018, converted with amendments by Law No. 96 of 9 August 2018) prohibits advertising, sponsorship and all other forms of communications with promotional content relating to gambling. The rationale of the blanket ban is to fight against gambling addiction and to strengthen … Read more
At the end of January 2019, the online poker regulatory authorities of France, Portugal, and Spain released a public statement on the implementation of the agreement concerning online poker liquidity sharing that they signed on 6th July 2017. The fourth signatory to that agreement was the gambling authority of Italy. The purpose of the … Read more
Legal provisions adopted in Italy concerning gambling are quite worrying.
Currently, the Italian Senate is debating another increase of the fiscal levy rate for video lotteries (VLT) and amusement with prizes (AWP) machines (low stakes, low prizes). Under the current government, these gaming machines already had two tax increases: one in July 2018, with the ‘Dignity Decree’, in order to compensate for the loss of revenues expected because of the ban on gambling advertising and sponsorships; and a second one, in December, with the Budget Law for 2019….
Giovanni Carboni speech at 2018 E-Gaming Review Online Gambling Briefing Italy. See the slides of the speech: EGR Gambling Briefing October 4th 2018 Giovanni Carboni 04102018
The article examines forthcoming changes to the gambling sector in Italy included in the Budget Law for 2018. Please download it here: Articolo OGL January 25.1.2018 Budget Law
L’analisi sul mercato del cash game online in Italia: i dati elaborati in esclusiva e le cause del crollo. Giovanni Carboni … ha elaborato per Assopoker, una serie importanti di dati che “raccontano” – di fatto – la storia del poker cash game online in Italia, dal 2011 (anno dello partenza) fino ad oggi. Visualizza … Read more
Il 6 luglio 2017, le autorità di regolazione del gioco con partecipazione a distanza italiana, francese, spagnola e portoghese, rispettivamente l’Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli (“ADM”), l’Autorité de Régulation des Jeux en Ligne (“ARJEL”), la Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (“DGOJ”) e il Serviço de Regulaçào e Inspeçào de Jogos dell’Instituto do Turismo … Read more
E’ un momento storico per il poker online italiano ed abbiamo contattato Giovanni Carboni di Carboni&Partners – EGLA, autorevole consulente sempre coinvolto nel lungo processo che sta portando alla introduzione della liquidità condivisa tra Italia, Francia, Spagna e Portogallo. Cogliamo l’occasione con lui per fare il punto sul progetto che permetterà ai nostri giocatori di … Read more