Register a company in Italy, Made in Italy, incorporated.

Yes. With an apostilled power of attorney the notary executes the deed, and codice fiscale, register entry, partita IVA and PEC all run remotely. Fintechs open accounts by video; traditional banks may want a meeting for full facilities. Nobody flies in for the incorporation itself.

Turnkey registration starts from €2,600 including the notary, register fees, PEC and the first-year address. With an account arranged, packages start from €4,600. Renewals with accounting run from €2,200 a year; Italian filings are real, and the price covers doing them properly.

IRES at 24% plus IRAP around 3.9%: roughly 28% combined, with the caveat that IRAP taxes production value, not profit. Dividends to you personally carry 26% (0% to qualifying EU parents), VAT is 22%. We model your numbers, IRAP included, before you commit.

The standard Srl (€10,000 capital, quarter paid) is the vehicle banks and partners expect, with statutes tailored to your governance. The Srls starts at €1 on fixed standard statutes: cheaper to open, less flexible to live with. Testing the market: Srls. Building for real: Srl from day one.

The regional production tax: ~3.9% charged on a base closer to gross value added than to profit, so labour-heavy businesses pay it even in thin-profit years. Deductions for permanent employees soften it substantially. It is the line that makes Italian projections wrong when ignored, so we never ignore it.

Genuine movers who transfer tax residence and work mainly from Italy pay tax on only 50% of employment or self-employment income for five years (income caps apply, more relief with children). Combined with running your Srl from Italy, it rewrites the personal arithmetic. The claim has conditions and deadlines; we file it with the relocation, not after.

Two more doors. High-net-worth movers can elect a €200,000 annual flat tax covering all foreign income (family addable at €25k each), and foreign pensioners settling in small southern towns pay 7% flat for ten years. Different profiles, same principle: Italy competes hard for residents, and we match the regime to the person.

Heavy enough to plan for: certified PEC email is mandatory, filings run in Italian on their own calendars, some interactions still want stamps and patience, and courts are the EU's slowest - contracts should arbitrate elsewhere where possible. Our answer is process: local accountants, the PEC monitored, deadlines owned. The folklore is earned; it is also manageable.

Spain runs cheaper operations and similar totals, better for services and remote teams. France funds R&D like nobody else. Italy's case is specific: if your product benefits from Italian provenance or plugs into its manufacturing districts, the premium and the supplier network repay the overhead. If neither applies, we say so and point west.

Plan one to two weeks: days for codici fiscali and statutes, the notary date inside a week, then the register, partita IVA and PEC. A fintech account can be live in days. The codice fiscale is the first domino, so we start it on day one and nothing waits on it.