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Forum: Italy
Apr 13th 2024, 4:50 am
Replies: 18
Views: 876
Posted By modicasa

Re: La Bolletta

You have to be careful with this. As in the Uk when the opened up the market, here there are lots of unscrupulous operators who switch suppliers 'on your behalf' with you knowing little or nothing...
Forum: Italy
Apr 11th 2024, 4:39 am
Replies: 7
Views: 314
Posted By modicasa

Re: Legalisation of translation at Manchester Consulate

Oops sorry - too much haste.
Well' Id forget the consulate and get it done either in Italy and sworn at the court, or go to someone like Notable Notaries in London who can do it for you. ...
Forum: Italy
Apr 10th 2024, 4:39 am
Replies: 7
Views: 314
Posted By modicasa

Re: Legalisation of translation at Manchester Consulate

In my experience the Manchester consulate is a disaster. You can legalise documents via the goverment offices in Milton Keynes - you send the document by mail/courier and it comes back all done. ...
Forum: Italy
Apr 2nd 2024, 4:59 am
Replies: 11
Views: 363
Posted By modicasa

Re: Saharan dust storm

The weather is completely mad - we have Saharan scirocco every year, but in March is unheard of. Yesterday I saw that the figs are well on the way, the zagara is in full flight, the carobs are...
Forum: Italy
Mar 23rd 2024, 5:51 am
Replies: 9
Views: 880
Posted By modicasa

Re: selling holiday home to fellow Brits.

The succession must be done in Italy for that property. Only then can it be sold, once the new owners are registered. If the widow is the only heir then its pretty straightforward. If there are...
Forum: Italy
Mar 19th 2024, 5:20 am
Replies: 6
Views: 373
Posted By modicasa

Re: Italian pension contributions and work history

True, or make an appointment with your local INPS. I went a month ago to see a pensions expert about integration and totalisation post Brexit - and the first question was 'So what is Brexit?' Not...
Forum: Italy
Mar 19th 2024, 5:18 am
Replies: 3
Views: 340
Posted By modicasa

Re: House Insurance

Allianz is good - you need to have someone who checks the house every 30 or 60 days when you're not there. Otherwise Genertel - the online version of generali - but they also want a declaration that...
Forum: Italy
Mar 18th 2024, 5:40 am
Replies: 6
Views: 373
Posted By modicasa

Re: Italian pension contributions and work history

I would contact the pensions ministry in your home country. If there is an agreement between Italy and your home country then the 4 years of contributions will be 'imported' to your home country and...
Forum: Italy
Mar 14th 2024, 5:43 am
Replies: 10
Views: 376
Posted By modicasa

Re: Piazza Armerina mosaics

The money from the EU wasnt specifically for Piazza Armerina, but part of the 2014-2020 EU funding programme for culture, I think. Nevertheless the successive Sicilian "governments" both right and...
Forum: Italy
Feb 28th 2024, 4:57 am
Replies: 7
Views: 505
Posted By modicasa

Re: Help with IMU taxes and other yearly property taxes

Your IMU is based on the rateable value of the property which we/you dont know, so you need to look at your visura, proposta di acquisto or compromesso and it is the R.C. value in the property...
Forum: Italy
Feb 20th 2024, 4:49 am
Replies: 18
Views: 876
Posted By modicasa

Re: La Bolletta

The standing charge will remain standing. Thank Renzi mainly for its current levels.
Forum: Italy
Feb 7th 2024, 4:45 am
Replies: 4
Views: 782
Posted By modicasa

Re: Moving to Italy

Sorry i didnt see that his wife was Italian... screen too small for my ancient eyes. Well, the simplest thing in that case is do everything in his wife's name while he gets his Permesso di...
Forum: Italy
Feb 6th 2024, 4:51 am
Replies: 4
Views: 782
Posted By modicasa

Re: Moving to Italy

If you have more than 1 holiday let, you will pay a flat rate of 26% tax on the income - if you add to that a B&B things could get complicated. You will need to check the requirements for B&Bs in...
Forum: Italy
Feb 2nd 2024, 4:31 am
Replies: 9
Views: 503
Posted By modicasa

Re: Fleximan in The Times

Salvini is the fool's version of Trump. He actually believes the crap he spouts.
Forum: Italy
Jan 29th 2024, 4:53 am
Replies: 9
Views: 503
Posted By modicasa

Re: Fleximan in The Times

Salvini actually passed the law that encouraged 30km in cities, even giving funding forthe implementation, and then as he always does, protested against his own measure.
Forum: Italy
Dec 8th 2023, 4:34 am
Replies: 7
Views: 602
Posted By modicasa

Re: Getting air conditioning installed

The portable units are great on paper - but you have a machine which is pumping out lots of cold air from one end and hot air from the other - which has to go out of a door or window - which means...
Forum: Italy
Dec 7th 2023, 5:23 am
Replies: 7
Views: 602
Posted By modicasa

Re: Getting air conditioning installed

Get it installed in winter and it will be quicker, aircon men won't be too busy when there's snow on the ground. AS for cost - if you want class AAA hot and cold then it wont be cheap, but you...
Forum: Italy
Nov 25th 2023, 5:27 am
Replies: 27
Views: 1,582
Posted By modicasa

Re: Working in Sicily

I taught on CO CO CO and CO CO PRO contracts when I was teaching. It was like being self employed in the UK. You dont get sick pay and obviously, given the fact that you dont work from June to...
Forum: Italy
Nov 25th 2023, 5:20 am
Replies: 13
Views: 697
Posted By modicasa

Re: Becoming non resident: what about our vehicles?

This is one of those questions where its all about interpretation of the law, I reckon. You bought a car as a resident so that's fine. Having a car as a non resident - I have never seen anything...
Forum: Italy
Nov 19th 2023, 4:52 am
Replies: 27
Views: 1,582
Posted By modicasa

Re: Working in Sicily

I think you could make an exception with la Santanchè
Forum: Italy
Nov 18th 2023, 4:59 am
Replies: 27
Views: 1,582
Posted By modicasa

Re: Working in Sicily

I love living and working here, but one of the things that really gets to me is the fact that nearly everybody will happily take on a worker and then not pay them. Its not just bars and shops which...
Forum: Italy
Nov 17th 2023, 4:41 am
Replies: 27
Views: 1,582
Posted By modicasa

Re: Working in Sicily

Im afraid I agree with the Italian guy. You will end up working and not getting paid for months, if at all.
Forum: Italy
Nov 16th 2023, 5:08 am
Replies: 5
Views: 834
Posted By modicasa

Re: We would love some advice about Estate Agents

Hi. Im an estate agent in ITaly, but have never sold a church. However, the seller is presumably the Curia of the Vescovato or the Diocese. This, as far as I am aware, does not exempt them from...
Forum: Italy
Nov 6th 2023, 4:17 am
Replies: 8
Views: 695
Posted By modicasa

Re: High price of olive oil

Apart from the imported oil, the biggest fraud in Italy happened in Toscana, where they coloured rubbish oil with spinach and sold it off as Extra Virgin. It appears now that organised crime has...
Forum: Italy
Oct 28th 2023, 4:58 am
Replies: 6
Views: 495
Posted By modicasa

Re: Ministry of Culture

Being the ultimate self publicist he is, Sgarbi told them he was the shoo-in for the job and they believed him despite him already having x other 'poltrone' and earning a fortune doing little other...
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