A friend of mine is thinking about buying an ex-display kitchen from Italy and has been told that there would be no custom duties to pay on importing to England. This sounds strange to me. Does anyone know whether this is true?
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Does anyone know if you have to pay custom duties if you take any of your personal furniture back to the UK? Gov.uk implies that you may have to but other sites "suggest" you don't. I can't find any clear guidance.
Thu, 05/27/2021 - 06:47
For those who haven't seen it, this is an interesting 1 hour Q&A by the British Embassy in Rome about the consequences of Brexit.
Mon, 07/27/2020 - 17:15
Page Format.
Previously the latest comments would appear on the top of the page. Now the page is in the date order of the original question. This means that recent comments (to old questions) all but disappear. Can this be rectified?
Mon, 01/13/2020 - 06:11
Acquiring Citizenship Jure Sanguinis
Thu, 12/26/2019 - 11:52
The Referendum! I was very surprised not to see some debate on the referendum. Very keen to understand what the electorate (at least those who voted "No") are hoping will happen next.
Mon, 12/05/2016 - 17:33
Has anyone seen the new site which details every comune's spend: http://soldipubblici.gov.it/it/home ? Allows you to compare your comune's per capita spend with others.
Fri, 01/16/2015 - 06:56
I see that everyone is running scared after the ridiculous convictions of the scientists for not warning about the 'quake in L'Aquila.
Sat, 04/06/2013 - 11:27
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/jan/31/can-italy-change/An interesting article by Tim Parks
Thu, 03/01/2012 - 10:29
Has anybody else had a 90% increase in their house insurance premiums from Intasure? Or was it just that they enticed me in with a low quote last year?
Thu, 04/14/2011 - 13:30
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Being a Quantity Surveyor in the UK and having restored 2 properties in Italy I may be able to help both with the translation and the content. Send it through and I'm happy to have a quick look. Unfortunately I'm busy next week in Italy - organising builders on my retirement home! - but I'll see what I can do.Unfortunately restoration in Italy is expensive - it's often cheaper to buy a finished property but you may not get exactly what and where you want.
Many thanks to you all. I've already downloaded the information and will be trying various bat/owl/dormice and different size bird boxes but not until next year unfortunately. Hope to come back to you and let you know how successful it was
I have an Italian - English Buidling dictionary. Dizionario Tecnico Dell'edilizia by J H Neueboom S Francescato.Editors BE-MA Editrice, Via Teocrito, 50, MilanoI bought it 15 years ago so don't know how easy to find now
Hi! I've joist joined and this is my first posting.I'm in the process of having an old farm building converted/extended and am paying €18/m2 to have the new floors sealed (it was €33 to have them laid, my supply), so not cheap. But only 90m2.The description is "Trattamento pavimenti in cotto, comprensivo di pullitura e trattamento con prodotti impregnanti ed idrorepellenti, la spazzolatura con spazzola al carbonio, il trattamento finale a base di cera"