Italy Corporate Income Tax (IRES)
April 2025Reduced Alternative CIT Rate for 2025 (Mini-IRES): For Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 only, an alternative reduced Corporate Income Tax (CIT) rate of 20% may be available, instead of the standard 24%.
This applies to Italian-resident companies and Italian permanent establishments of non-resident companies.
Conditions for the 20% Rate: To benefit from this reduced rate, companies must meet specific conditions, including:
- Retaining at least 80% of their 2024 earnings (not distributing them).
These retained earnings must be placed in a specific equity reserve. - Investing an amount equal to the higher of 30% of the 2024 retained earnings or 24% of the 2023 overall earnings back into the business.
The total investment must be at least €20,000. - Qualifying investments include tangible assets made between January 1, 2025, and December 31, 2025 (with a potential extension to June 30, 2026, under certain conditions).
Italy Banks Tax
August 2023The Italian cabinet approved on August 8, 2023 a new one time 40% on banks' excess income in 2023.
The new tax is expected to reduce taxes and assist mortgage payers.
The new tax is expected to reach several billion euro, equals to 19% of the banks' annual income.
Italy expected inflation in 2023
June 2023The annual inflation rate in Italy fell to 6.4% in June of 2023, (the lowest in 14 months).
Italy Credit Rating Downgrade
October 2018Moody's credit rating agency downgraded on October 19, 2018 Italy's credit rating from previous Baa2 to Baa3 while changing the outlook from previous negative to stable.
The downgrade follows worries about the planned budget deficit defying the EU budget rules.
Italy Credit Rating Downgrade
March 2013Fitch credit rating agency downgraded on March 8, 2013 Italy's credit rating by one step, from previous A- down to BBB+ with a negative outlook.
The downgrade follows the inconclusive results of the Italian elections which make it difficult to form a stable government in the coming weeks.
Italy Credit Rating Downgrade
July 2012Moody's credit rating agency downgraded on July 13, 2012 Italy's government bond rating by two steps, from previous A3 down to Baa2, just two steps above the junk rating.
The present downgrade is the second within five months. The previous downgrade by Moody's was in February 2012 together with Spain and Portugal.
Italy's Credit Rating Downgrade
October 2011Fitch credit rating agency downgraded on October 7 Italy's credit rating from AA- to A+ with a negative outlook.
The downgrade by Fitch follows previous downgrades by Moody's on October 4 and by Standard& Poor's on September 19.
Italy's Economic Indicators
April 2011The Italian Statistics office, Istat, released updates of the Italian economy in February.
In February 2011 the producer price index increased by 0.5% compared to January 2011 and by 5.3% compared to February 2010.
Istat estimates that 22.8 million people were employed.
The unemployment rate for February was 8.4%.
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