Attorney Marco Mazzeschi together with Giuditta Petreni, Barbara Burroni, Yuu Shibata and Sara Bocci, wrote a comprehensive and updated Practice Note on “Doing Business in Italy” for Lexis®PSL.
Attorney Mazzeschi has been writing for Lexis®PSL since 2018, and since then, he and his team have been updating the Practice Note on “Doing Business in Italy” on a yearly basis.
This Practice Note sets out the key legal and commercial considerations for a business when commencing business operations in Italy, and it covers the following points:
Doing business in Italy
- Introduction
- Business environment
- Establishing a presence
- Procedure for incorporation
- Enrolment with the Companies Register
- Legal nature of a subsidiary
- Financing a company
- Insolvency and bankruptcy procedures
- Purchase of real estate assets
- Opening a bank account
- Utilising office space
- Immigration controls
- Contracting with third parties
- Labour laws
- Taxation overview—financial and tax incentives
- Direct Taxes
- Indirect Taxes
- Withholding Taxes
- Taxes on real estate transfer
- Income and Property tax (yearly)
- Financial and tax incentives
- Regulatory compliance
- Competition and merger controls
- Consumer protection
- Privacy—Treatment of data in Italy (including EU countries) and outside the EU
- Money Laundering Provisions
- Italian IP Law
- Golden Power
- Useful links
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