Foosball like video poker, fine even if it's free

"Everyone is required to report table football, table tennis and pinball to the Customs agency, even if they are free, and you must wait for authorization to put them into operation. Pending, for each table football the fine is 4000 thousand euros: We are pure madness "and" the fines have already started ".

The cry of pain comes from Antonio Capacchione president of Sib, Italian Balneari Syndicate adhering to FIPE / Confcommercio which brings together 10 thousand bathing establishments, who explains to Ansa how this affects "also the oratories and non-profit associations, where the table football is often placed available free of charge ".

"The law dates back to 2003 - explains Capacchione - but the extensive interpretation also to table football and to all games without cash prizes is from 2021 with entry into force in June 2022,

that is, these reports had to be made by June 15, 2022. So the table football is like the videopoker: I have no words, other than bureaucratic and fiscal simplifications.

We are vexed, we are absurd ".