Games: Gdf, 12,000 suspicious transaction reports in 2023 (5,067 in 2019)

"In 2023, those obliged in the world of gaming filed 12 thousand suspicious transaction reports, with a strong upward trend compared to 2019, when there were 5,067". This was reported by the representatives of the Guardia di finanza, during a hearing at the Chamber of Deputies on the Legislative Decree reorganising the system of 'remote' gaming and betting, pointing out "great activism and cooperation on the part of concessionaires", of online gaming or with a physical network, obliged to report suspicious transactions.

"The gaming world," it also emerged from the hearing, "generates a taxation of the sector, consisting of the single tax on competitions, betting and wagering, entertainment tax and income tax. In the last three years, as the sole tax base for the purposes of the single tax, a taxable base of more than EUR 1.5 billion has been ascertained, from which a total of EUR 208 million in tax claims have arisen".

At the hearing in the Finance Commission, results from the control action in the territory against betting shops, among others, were illustrated. 'Between January 2022 and December 2023,' it was reported, 'almost 4.Between January 2022 and December 2023 - it was reported in particular - almost 4. 500 businesses were controlled and 245 interventions were carried out as part of the controls relating to anti-money laundering legislation, 248 managers were referred to the judicial authorities and seized 55 unauthorised points for the collection of bets and 561 between totems and newslot and videolottery machines that were not up to standard, because they were disconnected from the national totaliser and had inserted special cards that allowed bets to be channelled not towards the national totaliser, but towards servers located outside the national territory". In the same period, penalties of over EUR 7.6 million were consequently 'imposed'.