Il fenomeno del gioco d’azzardo: sintesi dell’evoluzione normativa in Italia

[Machine translation] Gambling in Italy developed starting in the middle of the 16th century, it was originally an activity relegated to noble and intellectual circles, but later it expanded initially to the bourgeois class and later also to the less well-off classes., The phenomenon of gambling has taken on significant dimensions, becoming, for some subjects, a real “behavioral addiction” (DGA - Gambling Addiction) causing harmful consequences on the family, work and financial levels., To better understand the magnitude of the phenomenon, the Customs and Monopoly Agency annually publishes the Blue Book from which it can be deduced that the public gaming market is growing; in the period 2015 - 2019, the Collection increased by +25.33%, the Winnings by +27.95%, the Expenditure by 14.41% and the Treasury by +29.55%. The increase in tax revenues comes as a result of the increase in the levy on entertainment devices as a result of regulatory interventions that, in the year 2019 alone, increased revenues by 9.62%. Consider, for example, that in the year 2019 the volume of games was about 110 billion euros, with a collection for the treasury of almost 11 billion euros. Also in 2019, the flow of money played amounted to about 6.18% of the GDP produced by Italy., In our legal system, numerous legislative interventions can be identified both in order to protect the most at risk and fragile subjects, and in order to better define the fiscal aspect of gambling.