Between the announcement and the implementation there was the summer break. We are talking about the stop to tax benefits for betting sites that sponsor their news portals. Which the Minister of Economy Giancarlo Giorgetti had announced several times – the last at the beginning of August – and which the head of the MEF made operational last Wednesday, including the measure in the fuel decree.
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What the measure provides
The government, in decree 153/2026, has established that expenses for sponsorships (or similar contractual types) are not deductible for income tax and IRAP purposes.
Furthermore, the amounts paid by gaming licensees to the Fund for the protection and fight against gambling addiction (up to 1 million per year) will become representation expenses and, therefore, will be deductible at the minimum rate established by the Consolidated Income Tax Act (for revenues and other income up to 10 million it is 1.5%).
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The revenue still to be deciphered
The expected revenue, for both measures, is not yet calculable. This is stated by the technical report of the decree itself, which does not commit and speaks of potential positive financial effects (which will replenish the Fund for structural economic policy interventions) but prudently not estimated ex ante.
The political game
The issue has been very “hot” for months in political circles and beyond. Everything revolves around the Dignity decree, in force since 2018, which introduced a crackdown on advertising for betting sites, even “indirectly.” This latter formula has left several gray areas, for example precisely through sports information portals linked to betting sites.
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