Living in Italy – Working Through a Foreign Company

Tax Resident in Italy Doing Business Through a Non Italian Company Modern information technology permits people to work from a laptop or computer wherever they find themselves. In the circumstances, you might think that using a foreign company can help reduce your tax burden.  For […]

Hiring an Employee – the Permanent Establishment risk

A non-Italian business considering employing an individual in Italy needs to consider whether the activities carried on by an Italian based employee in Italy create a corporate income tax (IRES) liability on the profit attributable those activities. Foreign corporations with a “permanent establishment” (or fixed […]

The Italian Representative Office

Foreign companies are able to register (with Business Registry at the Italian Chamber of Commerce.) If the company intends to carry on certain limited activate operate in the territory of a foreign country, without necessarily having to establish itself in one of the corporate forms […]

Extended definition of Permanent Establishment

Italy’s 2018 Finance Act made some significant changes to the definition in the domestic Tax Code of Permanent Establishment (PE). Specifically the changes: extend the definition of agency PE; make ALL the listed activities (deriving from the OECD standard model) which are deemed not to […]

1 2 3