The decision of the Italian Administrative Court to escalate to the Constitutional Court the decision on the € 500 million gaming contribution opens uncertain scenarios.
"This a crucial timing for the IoT and the industry 4.0 and we need to be coordinated" and the upcoming first meeting of IoTItaly seems the good opportunity for that.
The evolution of tax principles are leading to the conclusion that the same principles will apply to the real and digital economy as they are merging.
The deadline for the payment of the second installment of the € 500 million gaming contribution by VLT licensees/concessionaires expired, but only one third of the amount due was paid to AAMS.
The Italian lotto gaming tender finally got the approval from the Administrative Supreme Court and the process might be speeded up in the next months.
WhatsApp and Skype might be subject to new regulatory obligations in Italy as a consequence of the consultation just launched by the Italian communication authority (AgCom).
Here is a video of a panel run by myself and my DLA Piper colleague Mark Radcliffe with Kathrine Butler from GE, Lorena Marciano from Cisco Systems and Edwina Baddeley from Accenture on the legal issues of the Internet of Things at the Internet of Things Summit World Congress of Barcelona 2015.
eSports seem to be the new opportunity in the gambling sector and the Italian regulator already put in place the relevant regulations.
The European Commission issued guidelines on how to operate following the invalidation by the European Court of Justice of the Safe Harbor privacy principles for transfers of personal data between the EU and US. But this might not be the solution of this saga.
The Italian competition authority issued an opinion stressing the need to put in place a specific regulatory regime for services like Uber.