Because the closure of the legal game will not be a joke for the state coffers
What was said at the demonstration of legal gaming workers
Double manifestation of the entire world of legal gaming, without exclusions, to complain of having been forgotten and closed , for over 220 days, with damage that is difficult to calculate. In six months, the lockout imposed by the anti-Covid Dpcm led to a 47.5% drop in terms of deposits (73.9 billion euros in 2019 against 38.8 in the same period of 2020). A slowdown in consumption capable of having a significant impact also on the state coffers which in 2019 had collected 10.3 billion euros from the legal gaming retail area, while in 2020 it deprived itself of 42.3% less of equal revenues to 4.3 billion).
THE DOUBLE MANIFESTATION OF LEGAL GAME
There were two demonstrations, in Rome and Milan, to also highlight that the legal gaming points of sale with cash prizes, in addition to the situation of uncertainty and extreme difficulty linked to the prolonged closure of the activities, are experiencing problems with funding guaranteed by the State. “We are not asking for any particular benefit”, Riccardo Sozzi , spokesman of the association, tells Start , “but only equal dignity in the sector and category. Gaming activities, in addition to being authorized with licenses, constitute an important tax revenue for the State, before the pandemic more than 11 billion euros were guaranteed by the legal game to the Treasury. All flows tracked and controlled. The legal game involves about 150,000 workers in the sector, which today is at a standstill, in the Cig, with no certainties for the reopening, despite having all the anti-contagion measures, even more severe than in other sectors currently open in the yellow zone ".
WHAT THE LEGAL GAME REQUESTS FROM DRAGHI
To have even more strength and speak with a single vox, the whole category has come together under the banner of Ati Gioco Lecito . "We decided to give life to this temporary association – explain the promoters – in order to amplify the cry for help of companies in the legal gaming sector, with the aim of organizing initiatives aimed at raising the awareness of institutions to ask for companies and workers the same dignity recognized to other sectors of commerce and services, as well as to other sectors of the Legal Game ”(read also: Eni, Coca Cola, Sisal and more. All companies squeezed with new taxes ).
THE LETTER TO THE NEW GOVERNMENT
"Legal gaming in Italy is now at its last limit", reads the letter that the entire category of legal gaming sent to Palazzo Chigi at the end of the event. “The restrictions due to the health emergency have led to a prolonged closure for over 220 days of legal gaming outlets throughout the national territory. The sector is experiencing a dramatic situation, which sees the prolonged closure of about 15,000 points of sale of regular dealers regulated by state concessions, with the consequent economic difficulty for over 150 thousand people including direct workers, concessionary employees and related workers, who they reach 400 thousand people, extending the hardship to families ”.
SECURITY MEASURES TAKEN IN AUTONOMY
The document also underlines how the sector has "autonomously adopted" the "Health Safety Protocols containing measures to prevent and contain the virus even more restrictive than those envisaged by the DPCM and the Guidelines issued by the Conference of Regions, aimed at further reducing the risk of possible contagion and allow the use of gaming products in the halls in complete safety ". In short, the legal gaming sector in yesterday's demonstration did not ask for subsidies but for the possibility of returning to raise the shutters of activities.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/perche-la-chiusura-del-gioco-legale-non-sara-uno-scherzo-per-le-casse-dello-stato/ on Fri, 19 Feb 2021 06:28:46 +0000.