Artisans' register
Registration with the Chamber of Commerce as a craft business, with the professional requirements where the trade demands them.
Areas served · Turin west
Accountant and CAF in Cenisia, Turin
Looking for an accountant in Cenisia? The practice is in the neighbourhood next door, in Pozzo Strada, at via Sant'Antonino 52: from piazza Rivoli or corso Racconigi you can walk there or take the metro one stop. We work by appointment, in the office or by video call.
01 · Where we are
Accountant in Cenisia, Turin: two neighbouring districts
Cenisia is the western neighbourhood between corso Francia and corso Peschiera, with corso Trapani marking the border with Pozzo Strada and the Politecnico's Cittadella on corso Castelfidardo at the opposite end. It is a mixed area, grown up around the workshops and small factories of the past: today, in place of the sheds, there are homes, workshops and shops, with the long market on corso Racconigi as the daily point of reference.
For anyone living or working here the office in via Sant'Antonino is a stone's throw away. From the Rivoli station on line 1 it is a few minutes on foot; from piazza Bernini or corso Racconigi you take the metro towards Fermi and get off at Pozzo Strada.
- On foot from piazza Rivoli or via Monginevro: the office is inside Pozzo Strada, just beyond corso Trapani.
- By metro: Racconigi, Rivoli and Bernini stations on corso Francia, towards Fermi, get off at Pozzo Strada.
- By video call, which for routine matters remains the quickest route even if you live nearby.
- Always by appointment: the office has no walk-in desk and does not receive visitors without an agreed time.
02 · VAT numbers
The sole traders of Cenisia
The neighbourhood has kept a share of craft businesses that has disappeared elsewhere: body shops and mechanics, carpenters, upholsterers, plumbers and electricians, repair workshops, tailors. They are almost always sole proprietorships or family businesses, with an owner who does everything and has little time for paperwork.
For these businesses the practice's work has two sides: keeping the obligations in order during the year and saying in advance how much will be due, so that June and November bring no surprises.
Tax regime
Flat-rate scheme with the coefficient of your ATECO code (the business activity code), or simplified accounting when the cost of materials and equipment weighs heavily.
INPS for artisans
Fixed quarterly contributions to INPS (Italian social security) plus a share on the excess income, with the reduction available under the flat-rate scheme.
Equipment
Depreciation of machinery, van and tools, and deductibility of the vehicle used for work.
Family business
Spouse or children working in the workshop: how to attribute income and contributions.
Changing accountant
Handover at any time of the year, with the transfer of the books and the credentials.
Many artisans work for private customers with ordinary VAT and for building firms under the reverse charge. They are two different regimes on the same partita IVA (Italian VAT number) and must be handled line by line, because a wrong reverse charge produces VAT owed twice.
03 · Retail
Neighbourhood shops and market stalls
Corso Racconigi, via Frejus, via Monginevro and the surrounding streets have a dense network of food shops, bars, bakeries, hairdressers and small businesses. Added to the market stalls, they make Cenisia an area where retail is still a neighbourhood trade, with the obligations that come with it.
| Obligation | Who it concerns | Practical note |
|---|---|---|
| Electronic daily takings | Shops with over-the-counter sales | The till transmits on its own, but the closures must be checked every month |
| Commercial SCIA | Openings, takeovers, changes of sector | Filed with the Comune di Torino (the municipality) before starting |
| Trading on public land | Market stalls | Pitch concession and contribution compliance to renew it |
| VAT settlements | Those under the ordinary regime | Monthly or quarterly, with the periodic return |
| Lease of the premises | Anyone with a rented shop | Registration and annual tax, even when the landlord pays it |
| Food and drink service | Bars and restaurants | Professional requirements and health obligations alongside the tax ones |
The pages on daily takings and commercial leases go into detail. For market stalls the tax side is often simple; it is the administrative side with the Comune that needs attention.
04 · The Politecnico
Letting to students near the Cittadella
Proximity to the Politecnico has changed part of the neighbourhood. Many flats between corso Castelfidardo and corso Racconigi are let to students, by the room or whole, and the owners find themselves managing short contracts, frequent changes of tenant and income to declare every year.
- Registering the contract within thirty days of signing, with the RLI form and registration tax, or the option for the cedolare secca (the flat tax on rental income).
- Contracts for university students: six months to three years, rent within the limits of the Turin local agreement and the reduced rate of the cedolare secca.
- Letting by the room: each room is a contract, with its own registration, and the income is added together in the return.
- Short-term lets under thirty days, with the identification code and the rules on withholding by the platforms.
- Deduction for the student: the rent paid by a student living away from home is deducted in their own return or in the parents', within the annual limit.
Extension, termination, takeover
Student contracts move with the academic calendar and every change must be notified.
- An extension is registered within thirty days of the original expiry
- Early termination must be notified, otherwise the tax keeps accruing
- A change of just one flatmate is an assignment to be registered
- The cedolare secca is confirmed at every extension, it does not carry over by itself
05 · CAF services
The filings of every year for those living in Cenisia
Alongside the businesses, Cenisia remains a neighbourhood of long-standing residents: families, pensioners, people who have always had their home here. For them the practice works as a CAF (authorised tax assistance centre), with the annual filings handled in person or remotely.
- 730 (the tax return for employees and pensioners) and Redditi form, with the pre-filled return as a starting point and the missing documents added by hand.
- ISEE (the Italian means-test indicator) for nursery, school meals and utility bonuses, with the January renewal.
- IMU (municipal property tax) on second homes and rented properties, with the F24 forms (the Italian tax payment form) already filled in.
- Inheritance and land registry transfers for the neighbourhood's properties passing from one generation to the next.
- Domestic workers and carers for anyone caring for a parent at home.
Frequently asked
The questions that keep coming up
I am an artisan under the flat-rate scheme. Do I still have to keep accounts?
The flat-rate scheme exempts you from ordinary bookkeeping, but there are still electronic invoices to issue, INPS contributions to pay and the annual return with the calculation of the substitute tax.
The practice keeps the invoice register and tells you in advance the amount of the advance and balance payments, so that the June and November payments are already planned.
I let a room to a Politecnico student. Do I have to declare it?
Yes. The contract, even for a single room, must be registered and the rent must be shown in the return. If the contract falls within the type for university students you can apply the cedolare secca at the reduced rate.
Not registering means losing the cedolare secca and risking the penalty for failure to register, as well as full taxation of the income when it comes to light.
I have a stall at the corso Racconigi market. Is the tax treatment different from a shop?
The tax side is similar: partita IVA, daily takings, INPS contributions as a trader and the tax return. The difference lies in the pitch concession, which is an administrative permit from the Comune and requires contribution compliance.
The DURC (the certificate of contribution compliance) must be kept valid, because without INPS compliance the concession may not be renewed even if your taxes are in order.
How far is the office from piazza Rivoli?
A few minutes on foot: via Sant'Antonino is in the part of Pozzo Strada between corso Francia and corso Peschiera, just beyond corso Trapani.
If you would rather avoid the trip, a video call is arranged at the same times and with the same appointment.
Let's talk
If you have a workshop or a shop, the accounts must keep pace
VAT and INPS deadlines do not wait for the end of the year. We send you a personalised calendar and speak before every payment.