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Hello everyone,I'm resident in Italy but earn relatively little, lower than the Italian state pension. That's fine, I have very few outgoings. My income is derived from business generated, invoiced and paid for in the UK.

Mon, 12/05/2011 - 11:10

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Tue, 12/06/2011 - 08:07

The €1k trigger will apply to cash withdrawals from Italian bank accounts as well.

Tue, 12/06/2011 - 05:12

I think the threshold is currently five k and about to drop to one.

Tue, 12/06/2011 - 04:15

Very interesting Penny, thank you for replying. So then, if in the arc of a year, Tizio earns €100 the state wants €20 of it and that's all there is to it. Well, the law is the law, they are the ones with the side arms. While I can't justify my stance there are two observations that come to mind: 1) A person should at least be allowed to earn the equivalent of the state pension without fear of extortion. 2) After having dealt with Italian bureaucracy for years I would have no faith at all in their being capable of marrying Uk tax paid against Italian tax due. I recently read a fantastic article on the Uk inland revenue's view on residency, to wit they will bend over well beyond backwards to class a person living abroad as still Uk resident simply so that, as and when, they can clamp their mits on capital gains tax - and of course any other tax that's going.  At the end of the day it's just a business like any other the only difference being that they provide neither good nor service.