Italy’s 2027 budget bill adds a fifth Lotto draw each week, held on Wednesdays together with a fifth SuperEnalotto draw, worth €30.5m in extra state profit in 2027, and offers slot concessionaires a 20% discount to settle €89.47m still owed under the 2015 Stability Law.
The figures come from the technical report by the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) that accompanies the bill. The government has sent the 157-article budget, worth about €26bn, to the Chamber of Deputies, according to LaPresse’s report on the bill and ANSA’s summary of the main measures.
The fifth Lotto draw
The extra draw would bring in €30.5m of additional state profit in 2027, split €15.7m from Lotto and €14.8m from SuperEnalotto, and €43.1m a year from 2028, the MEF estimates. LaPresse reported that the extra draw would start in March 2027.
The ministry assumes that players will spread their spending across five weekly draws, up from four, lifting the amount wagered by 5% compared with 2025. Italy’s lottery games are run under concession supervised by the Customs and Monopolies Agency (ADM).
Settlement on the 2015 slot levy
The 2015 Stability Law cut the annual compensation paid to the slot sector by €500m, and made concessionaires liable to pay the full reduction to the state. They can then claim each operator’s share back from the rest of the supply chain, such as machine owners and venue operators.
The Council of State has confirmed in its rulings that the obligation sits with the concessionaires, the MEF technical report states. The ministry still describes collecting the €89.47m not yet paid as “problematic”.
Concessionaires have to pay shares owed by supply-chain operators who never paid them, and recovering that money is uncertain given the time passed. According to the report, many of those operators have since changed, merged or closed, in a slot market that has shrunk over the years.
How the deal works
Concessionaires that drop their pending litigation and agree not to start new cases can have the amount they still owe reduced by up to 20%, and they are exempted from interest. The discount is scaled to how much of their payment obligation each concessionaire has already met.
If every concessionaire signs up, the state would collect €71.6m, the MEF estimates. ANSA also listed other gaming measures in the bill: maximum slot stakes rising to €2 with maximum wins of €200, and a levy of €1,200 per station in gaming halls, or €2,000 for large simulators. Italy’s online market alone produced about €5bn in GGR.
Next steps
The Chamber of Deputies starts its review of the budget bill first, followed by the Senate. Parliament has to approve the budget law by 31 December 2026 for the fifth draw and the slot settlement to take effect in 2027.
Source: Ministry of Economy and Finance
