Welcome to Taxing.it. This website was set up in 2001 as a platform to provide information and resources in, the English language, on Italian tax, for those investing in, or doing business in Italy.

Over the years the Italian government has been working hard to consolidate and simplify the Italian tax system. However like may tax systems in sophisticated modern States, the organic growth of the rules, the continued political intervention aimed at targeting tax-avoidance, and adapting the new rules to new forms of business, the intervention of a judiciary who often have little tax training and a tax authority/collecting agency who are in part remunerated by results means that the system is complex.

Starting with well structured consolidated tax codes, the system then sees intervention, often last minute, from politicians designed to cover deficits or close perceived loop holes, and from the tax authorities also seeking to target abuse on the hand, and to provide interpretation on new legislation and requests for guidance on the other. For foreign investors maters are further complicated by the language barrier. The Italian tax agency has started to publish directly in English but obtaining clear and concise guidance on the Italian tax system is difficult.

The idea behind this site is to try and open up some of the perceived complexities of the Italian tax scene, and attempt to put the non-Italian speaker at last in the same position as the native speaker.

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The Italian tax system, can seem complicated. It is,like many modern tax systems it has grown organically.

The website is the brainchild of UK/Italian attorney Colin Jamieson who has 25 years of cross border tax experience.  He has worked on a wide variety of Italian tax issues, from individual start ups to the acquisition by multi-nationals of some of Italy ‘s largest businesses. Take a look at the free resources available and do not hesitate to get in touch, either via our Contact form, email or fix up a skype/zoom session.