Once again the Italian gaming market has to face a Stability Law which risks to ratify the final closure of numerous firms.  The Italian taxation of over 70% is unbearable for companies: for this reason once again the National Association SAPAR is forced to contest this law in order to avoid the inevitable closing of the business activities of thousands of workers legally licensed.  This inexplicable fury towards the gaming sector will have negative consequences not only on more of 5,000 companies, that will have to close after the burden of a unbearable fiscal pressure, but on the Government too that could not count on the estimated internal revenue after their bankruptcy.  Moreover, the Government will have to explain to the over 300,000 employers of the sector how would it be possible to guarantee to them and their families the adequate maintenance, considering that shortly they will lose their job if this illogical Stability Law will not be modified.  And more seriously, the Government will hand definitively the gaming sector over to the illegality.  One of the crux of the Stability Law is the need of the replacement of all the machines due to the change of Preu and payout; above all, regarding the indispensable schedule of the machine replacement and/or update, it is really necessary a negotiation to define jointly a plan between the Government and the State Monopoly Administration.

SAPAR Association will keep on defending the sector companies and the workers all the way from an iniquitous and specious regulation; the battle is taking place not only nationally, because every day we have to face excessively limiting regional and council regulations relating to machine positioning and scheduling restrictions of slot machine rooms.  This fury committed by many administrations towards a unique kind of game pushed the potential gambler towards different kind of entertainment, sometimes illegal, instead of creating a safeguard of the gambler.  The everyday report tells us about people who squander a lot of money by gambling with illegal machines or online games which the SAPAR Association has many times asked to regulate because they are considered as “no man’s land”; in fact, they are not regulated, notwithstanding they are the most used games by minors on their smartphones.