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Italian Tax Code (Codice Fiscale)

By admin | August 19, 2008

Something you must have before you can even sign a preliminary contract is a Codice Fiscale. This is a national tax code and you need it for buying a house, a car, taking out contracts for utilities and many other services. Having a codice fiscale does not mean that you become liable for Italian income tax. A good agent will help you obtain your CF (the abbreviation for codice fiscale) and if you give them authority (a delega) they can even get it for you in your absence. All you need is a copy of your passport and an address in Italy; as you haven’t an address of your own until you buy the property, quite often the office address of the agent or your lawyer is used but remember to change this as soon as you can as important correspondence may go missing.