Regime
Flat-rate scheme within the limits, otherwise the ordinary regime on a cash basis with professional bookkeeping.
Areas served · Turin west
Accountant in Cit Turin, Turin
Looking for an accountant in Cit Turin? The practice is along the same metro line, five stops further west: the office at via Sant'Antonino 52 in Pozzo Strada is a few minutes from Principi d'Acaja and Porta Susa. We see clients by appointment, in the office or by video call.
01 · Cit Turin
Accountant in Cit Turin, Turin: from corso Francia to Porta Susa
Cit Turin is the neighbourhood between corso Francia, corso Vittorio Emanuele II, corso Inghilterra and corso Ferrucci: Art Nouveau buildings around via Principi d'Acaja and via Duchessa Jolanda, the piazza Benefica market, Porta Susa station on one side and the Law Courts on the other. Within a few blocks, fine homes, law firms, offices, hotels and flats let to people arriving in the city for work sit side by side.
For the practice it is the neighbourhood next door: line 1 links Principi d'Acaja, Bernini and Porta Susa to Pozzo Strada in a few minutes, and anyone who prefers to walk follows corso Francia westwards to piazza Rivoli.
- Metro: from Principi d'Acaja, Bernini or Porta Susa towards Fermi to Pozzo Strada. Under ten minutes.
- On foot or by bike along corso Francia, about half an hour at a normal pace.
- By video call, which remains the main method even for neighbours.
- By appointment: the office has no walk-in desk.
02 · Earning from property
Letting in Cit Turin: long-term, transitional or short
Proximity to Porta Susa and the office buildings has created demand for flats from people coming to Turin for months: consultants, managers on assignment, doctors in training, researchers. Alongside ordinary contracts, transitional contracts and short-term lets have grown, each with its own regime.
| Formula | For whom | Tax and obligations |
|---|---|---|
| Free-market 4+4 | Families and long-term residents | Ordinary cedolare secca (flat tax on rental income), registration, full IMU (municipal property tax) |
| Agreed rent 3+2 | Anyone accepting the rent set by the Turin agreement | Reduced cedolare secca and reduced IMU with the certificate |
| Transitional | Workers on assignment, one to eighteen months | Transitional reason written into the contract, ordinary registration |
| Short-term | Guests for up to thirty days | Identification code, questura (police headquarters), tourist tax, cedolare secca |
| Company accommodation | Companies housing employees | The tenant is the company; non-residential letting regime |
| Office or practice | Professionals and companies | 6+6 contract, VAT or registration tax depending on the landlord |
A transitional contract without a real, documented reason risks being reclassified as a 4+4 by a judge. For anyone letting to workers on assignment, the letter from the company stating the length of the posting is the document to attach.
03 · Condominium
Works and tax credits in Art Nouveau buildings
The neighbourhood's buildings are a century old or more, with decorated facades, period staircases and lifts. Restoring them is expensive and the deductions help, but works on buildings of historic interest follow extra rules, and splitting the cost between the owners requires precise administration.
- Deductions for facades and common parts, at the percentages in force in the year of the works, with the certificate from the building administrator.
- Listed buildings: compulsory restoration expenses have a deduction of their own, only partly combinable with the others.
- Dedicated bank transfer for your condominium share too, when the building has no administrator paying on behalf of everyone.
- Split between owner and tenant: the deduction goes to whoever bears the expense, and the tenant can deduct only if they paid and have the owner's consent.
- Sale during the instalments: the remaining instalments pass to the buyer unless the deed says otherwise in writing.
- Record keeping: invoices, transfers, resolutions and certificates until the end of the inspection periods.
Renovations carried out over the years raise the property's tax cost: if you sell within five years of buying, they reduce the capital gain. That is why the invoices are not thrown away even after the last instalment.
04 · Near the courts
Law and professional practices between corso Vittorio and piazza Benefica
The presence of the Law Courts has concentrated law, consultancy and mediation practices in the neighbourhood. They are professionals with a pension fund, withholding taxes to recover, a rented office and often an employed secretary.
Office
Registered lease, deductible rent, service charges and utilities in proportion to use.
Withholding taxes
Withholding suffered from VAT-registered clients, CU (annual income statements) to check and credit to recover in the return.
Association
STP (professional company) or associated practice: income by share, contributions for each, rules on shared expenses.
Collaborators
Trainees, secretarial staff and collaborators with a partita IVA (Italian VAT number): contracts, payslips and form 770.
Advance payments
Calculated on the previous year or recalculated with the forecast method when the year changes.
05 · Transfers
The flats of Cit Turin passing from one generation to the next
In the neighbourhood's buildings many homes have belonged to the same family for decades. When they pass to the children, through an inheritance or a gift, the cadastral value, modest compared with the market, keeps the taxes manageable, but the transfers must be completed with the land registry updates and the decisions on future use.
- Inheritance tax return within twelve months, with the allowances for spouse and children.
- Usufruct and bare ownership when a parent stays in the flat.
- IMU for an heir who already has a home, from the date of death.
- Letting the inherited property, choosing between the formulas in the table above.
- Sale: for inherited properties the capital gain does not apply.
Before a deed
Four checks that avoid problems at the notary's.
- Up-to-date land registry search: names, shares, outbuildings
- Previous inheritances closed and transferred
- Cadastral compliance of the floor plan
- Current rental contracts, registered and with known expiry dates
06 · CAF services
The filings of every year for those living in Cit Turin
For the neighbourhood's families the practice also works as a CAF (authorised tax assistance centre): 730 (the simplified tax return) with rental income under the cedolare secca, deductions for condominium works and family expenses; ISEE (the Italian means-test indicator) for the children's university and for services; domestic workers and carers with quarterly contributions; RED form for pensioners. For anyone with several properties and investment income the return moves to the Redditi form, with the same timing and the same method.
Frequently asked
The questions that keep coming up
I am letting a flat to a manager on assignment for eight months. Can I use a transitional contract?
Yes, if the transitional reason is real and documented: the letter from the company stating the length and location of the assignment must be attached to the contract. The rent follows the limits of the territorial agreement where provided.
The contract is registered normally and the income is taxed under the ordinary cedolare secca. Without documentation of the reason, the contract can be reclassified as a 4+4.
Our Art Nouveau building is redoing the facade. Is the deduction different for a historic building?
The deductions for common parts apply as in other condominiums, with the percentages of the year of the works and the administrator's certificate. If the building is listed, the restoration expenses imposed by the listing have a deduction of their own.
Combining the two has limits. Before the works are approved it is worth knowing which deduction applies to which expenses.
I am a lawyer with an office on corso Vittorio. How much do the office costs weigh on my taxes?
The rent, service charges and utilities of the office are deducted in full if the premises are used exclusively for work; if they coincide with your home, the deduction is fifty per cent.
The Cassa Forense (the lawyers' pension fund) also counts in the calculation, and is deducted when paid. The cash basis makes it useful to plan payments at year end.
How long does it take from piazza Benefica to the office?
By metro from Principi d'Acaja to Pozzo Strada under ten minutes, then five minutes on foot. By bike along corso Francia a quarter of an hour.
For contracts, tax returns and inheritances a video call remains the default option, with the documents shared on screen.
Let's talk
A flat in a historic building is worth as much as its paperwork
Registered contracts, certified works, closed inheritances and up-to-date land registry entries: that is what makes the difference when it comes to selling, letting or passing the property to your children.