• Di Maio: prison for the great evaders in the fiscal decree

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October 17, 2019Confindustria Gioco takes action against tax increases under the tax decree. "We hear talk of discontinuity but we do not see any signs of change for the chain of legal gambling that is used by the State every year, to make cash in the Budget Law. On AWP alone, the tax burden has reached 73%: there is no industry that can survive in these conditions, is the comment by Stefano Zapponini, President of Sistema Gioco Italia (Confindustria), to the measures contained in the drafts of the fiscal decree connected to the maneuver. Thus, he underlines, "the game is destined to return to the hands of illegality".

"We hear talk of a maneuver for growth, but in the actions of the Government we only see pro-cyclical and non-cyclical interventions. We hear about the fight against evasion, but what the Governments, including the current one, are doing exactly in the opposite direction: yes is making the illegal game competitive and convenient for the citizen with respect to the legal game, a creeping counter-reform that reports the sector before 2003. We hear about measures to promote employment, but in the gaming sector the territorial regulations in contrast with the concession assignments of the state have canceled and are erasing the legal industry that can only dismiss and certainly not create new employment, we hear talk of contrast to the pathological game, but there is no awareness that the illegal game so favored certainly does not allow us to adopt instruments of control in favor and protection of players: there are no rules, no monitoring, no countermeasures to adopt: s i multiplies the GAP effect and certainly does not reduce it ".

"I am firmly convinced and I believe that in this there can be an absolute convergence of all the employers 'and workers' representatives - concludes Zapponini - that only a comprehensive reform can be the responsible and common goal of the Citizen, of the State, of the Industry: a reform capable of guaranteeing balance in the territories, sustainability, security for the citizen and stability in the fiscal policies of the supply chain that gives continuity to the legal sector and makes investments in new concessions possible ".