Five Personal Lessons Learned From The Building Bonus System In Italy

If you are buying a house in Italy and are intending on benefitting from the system of detractions and deductions for the costs of building and renovating your property, then here are 5 things which we learned in our home restoration.

1. All payments must be made by traceable means i.e bonifico (bank transfer) or credit card payment. No trace, no bonus!
2. If paying by bonifico (bank transfer) then you need to pay by using the ‘bonifico per agevolazione fiscale’ option with your bank and NOT the ‘bonifico ordinario’ option. It asks for more information, such as the partitia IVA of the company / person you have worked with and this is needed for the bonus.
3. If you employ single workmen working alone then you don’t need an authorisation (SCIA or CIA) from the local authority but if they are a ‘dita edilizia’ (this can include even 2 people working together as a construction company) then you may need to have a ‘piano di sicurezza’ from an architect who will need to draw that up and