Il Ministry of Finance has issued in recent days the programmatic guidance document for the achievement of fiscal policy objectives for the years 2024-2026 paying particular attention to the public gaming sector.
These are objectives already outlined in another Act of address, the one for defining priorities policies for the year 2024.
The document highlights the actions aimed at overseeing the requirements of legality in the areas of intervention of the Financial Administration, with particular regard to customs operations, those in the excise, tobacco, as well as the public gaming sector, including those aimed at combating related criminal phenomena.
In particular, the Ministry intends raise the quality of public gaming offerings and ensure a safe and responsible gaming environment, combating illegal gaming, protecting vulnerable subjects and paying particular attention to activities on the prohibition of gaming by minors.
Among the objectives ofCustoms agency and monopolies there is to raise the quality of the offer of public games, "protecting the vulnerable subjects and fighting the illegal gambling, with a view to streamlining and rationalizing the tools to combat pathological gambling, increasing the level of security and the possibility of controlling the public gaming network and combating fraud to the detriment of the treasury. The pursuit of this objective will be supported by analytical activities aimed at implementing an overall reform of public gaming in order to ensure, without changing tax revenue, the reduction of risks connected to gambling disorder, the strengthening - also in cooperation with the police and with the other competent administrations - of the control on the ban on gaming by minors, the involvement of the Committee for the prevention and repression of illegal gaming, as well as the conclusion of the public procedures for the assignment of the new concessions for the collection of games, taking into account the need for a homogeneous territorial distribution of the legal collection premises".
The Guardia di Finanza, in addition to verifying the correct fulfillment of fiscal requirements, will also guarantee constant monitoring for anti-money laundering purposes, in order to avoid the re-use of illicit proceeds in the sector as well as the fight, also in this context, of any form of infiltration of economic and organized crime.
