Blog · Tax without the jargon
The blog gathers articles that grow out of the questions people actually bring to the practice. None of them replaces advice on your own case, but all of them help you understand what we are talking about before we sit down together.
In date order, starting from the most recent. Each article links to the in-depth page on the topic, where you will find the full picture.
The flat-rate scheme is simple and often worthwhile, but not always. High real costs, family deductions that get lost and investments with VAT are the three cases where you need to redo the numbers before you choose.
Read the articleSpouses with two residences, the second garage, the home lent to a child, the inherited property, the home assigned after a separation: the IMU cases that raise the most questions and how to read them.
Read the articleThe ISEE expires on 31 December and is renewed from January. Which years of income and assets it looks at, which documents each household member needs and why it pays to ask for the balance and the average balance straight away.
Read the articleJune packs VAT, withholding tax, IMU, the balance and first advance of taxes and contributions into a few weeks. What you pay, why the figure surprises people in their second year, and how to arrive with the cash ready.
Read the articleThe VAT number itself arrives quickly. What takes time are the choices before the application and the steps after it: the Registro Imprese, INPS and, where needed, a SCIA to the Comune. Here is the right order and how long each stage takes.
Read the articleAfter the notary the SRL exists, but the accounting starts from zero. Books, registers, director's pay, the first financial statements and the jump in taxes in year two: what to expect in the first twelve months.
Read the articleThe useful question is not how much tax the SRL pays, but how much of what you earn you need to live on. A round-number example shows where the difference between the two models really lies.
Read the articleSwitching accountant needs no formal procedure, just an orderly handover: engagement, documents, online authorisations, electronic invoices. Here is the order of the steps and the documents to ask for.
Read the articleThe €85,000 threshold is scaled to the days of activity, and the 5% rate uses up a whole tax year regardless. These are the two things that surprise people who open in September convinced they have a full year ahead of them.
Read the articleAverage balance confused with the year-end balance, an adult child left in the wrong household, the home you own declared at market value. Mistakes that shift the indicator by thousands of euros.
Read the articleIt is not a payment demand and not yet a tax assessment. It is the moment when the penalty costs less and when, if the error is the Agency's, the matter closes without you paying anything.
Read the articleThe first strand is for people who work for themselves or are about to. We write about how to start a business, which tax scheme to choose, social security contributions, invoices and deadlines, starting from real doubts: the start date, actual costs compared with the profitability coefficient, the payments due in June. The starting point is the guide on how to open a partita IVA (Italian VAT number) in Turin, while for anyone weighing up the reduced-tax option there is the page on the flat-rate scheme (regime forfettario) in Turin, with the items you pay and those you do not pay in the city. The articles in this group are most useful before a decision: open now or wait, flat-rate or ordinary scheme, how much to set aside each month.
The second strand is about businesses and companies. Here you will find articles on keeping the accounts, on the first year of a newly formed company, and on the choice between a sole proprietorship and an SRL (Italian limited company) looked at through the numbers. For organising bookkeeping, VAT settlements and financial statements, the reference is the page on bookkeeping in Turin; for anyone thinking of forming a company, the page on how to set up an SRL in Turin, with capital, costs and taxation. The common thread is keeping the business's money clearly separate from your personal money, and knowing in advance what will fall due.
The third strand covers families and CAF services (CAF: an authorised tax assistance centre): the tax return, the ISEE (the Italian family income and assets indicator), the benefits linked to it, property. These are the topics where mistakes cost the most, because they often go unnoticed until a notice arrives or a benefit is refused. For the tax return the starting point is the page on the 730 form (the Italian tax return for employees and pensioners) in Turin, with documents, deductions and deadlines; for the indicator of your economic situation, the page on the ISEE in Turin, with the types of ISEE and the documents you need.
Finally, there is a strand that cuts across the others: what to do when something goes wrong. Notices from the Agenzia delle Entrate (the Italian Revenue Agency), forgotten payments, returns that need correcting, the move from one professional to another. These are situations where acting promptly matters, and where knowing your options in advance lets you choose calmly instead of under deadline pressure. In these articles you will find the sequence of steps, the documents to gather and the time limits not to miss, explained with simple examples and without taking technical language for granted.
Each article starts from a specific question and explains the general rule, with round-number examples where they help to show how things work. Use them to find your bearings, to prepare your documents and to arrive at the appointment already knowing the right questions to ask. Your situation almost always has a detail the general rule does not cover: that is what we look at together.
Yes. Many articles come straight from the questions people bring to the practice: you can write to us from the contact page and tell us the topic. If the question is about your own specific case, though, the answer goes through an appointment.
Each article shows its publication date, and the linked in-depth pages are updated when the legislation changes. For real decisions it is always wise to check the rules in force in the year in which you act.
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