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Southern Italy · residency

A New Life in the South

Tired of grey skies? In hundreds of small towns across eight regions of Southern Italy, you can pay just 7% on your foreign pension, dividends, and any other overseas income — instead of progressive tax rates — for ten straight years. The population threshold for eligible towns was just raised to 30,000, so your choice of places just got bigger. Plus exemption from wealth tax and reporting on foreign-held assets. We’ll find and renovate the home for this new chapter — under first-home purchase terms, with a 2% purchase tax instead of 9%.

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The terms, in short

7%
on your foreign pension, dividends and any other overseas income, instead of progressive rates
10
years: the entire term of the relief
30,000
residents: the population threshold for eligible towns, across eight southern regions
2%
purchase tax under first-home terms, instead of 9%

Plus: exemption from wealth tax and from reporting on foreign-held assets.

Does your town qualify for the 7%?

The threshold is 30,000 residents, in eight southern regions. Search for the comune and read the answer.

Pick a point on the map, or search the comune by name.

0 comuni on the map · threshold 30.000 residents

Population: ISTAT, measured on 1 January. The threshold is recalculated every year, so the list is rebuilt whenever the data is updated.

Ten years, one after another

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The substitute tax applies from your first year of Italian tax residency and for the nine that follow.

From the eleventh year, ordinary rates apply again.

How we do it together

  1. 01

    The town

    We start from how you want to live: sea or hills, how far from a hospital and an airport. Then we choose among the towns eligible for the scheme.

  2. 02

    The house

    We search for the property, check deeds, land registry and building constraints before the purchase, and agree the price.

  3. 03

    The renovation

    Costed by stage, carried out by insured firms that answer for their work, with cameras on site: you follow the works from your phone, from where you live now.

  4. 04

    The paperwork

    Residency and the tax scheme are handled by a partner commercialista. RemoVest coordinates; it does not give tax advice.

Properties in the catalogue

These are the properties currently in our catalogue, with the purchase price and the works budget. For a move we search on request in the town you choose: eligibility for the scheme depends on the town and is checked case by case.

If you are not an EU citizen, living in Italy also requires a visa — usually the elective residence visa (visto per residenza elettiva). This is not fine print: without the visa the move does not start. We explain how it works and put you in touch with the people who handle the application.

Requires genuinely transferring your tax residency to Italy; eligibility is verified case by case. RemoVest does not provide tax advice — the application is handled through a partner commercialista (tax accountant).

Let’s start with the town

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