What you actually keep in Italy
| Gross salary | UK resident | Standard rates |
|---|---|---|
| £60,000 | £45,357 | £36,486-£8,871 |
| £100,000 | £68,557 | £55,610-£12,947 |
| £150,000 | £91,286 | £79,515-£11,771 |
| £250,000 | £144,286 | £127,325-£16,961 |
Every figure above is a separate call to the same engine the calculator uses, run at build time on 2026-08-12. The green column is the best available outcome at that income.
The Italy options, priced
- Standard rates. Ordinary IRPEF rates plus regional and municipal surcharges.
Italy has one regime to model here, which makes the structure and the residency date the only levers that matter.
What actually moves the number
- Regional and municipal surcharges sit on top of the national rates, so the town matters by a percentage point or two.
- Italy has an impatriate regime and a flat-tax option for new residents, neither of which the engine prices, so the standard figure is the pessimistic case.
- Italy taxes worldwide income once resident, and registration with the Anagrafe is what usually triggers it.
When Italy starts taxing you
More than 183 days, or registration in the resident population register, or having your domicile or habitual abode in Italy. Any one of the three is enough.
The other half is the UK side. Leaving the UK tax net is the Statutory Residence Test, and running a UK company from outside the UK raises Central Management and Control and Permanent Establishment questions that are separate from your own residence. Running a UK limited company while living abroad covers both.
What this calculation assumes
- Social security is the weak point in this calculation. The model charges the destination country's employee contributions and drops UK National Insurance the moment residence moves. In practice UK NI often continues for a period after you leave, and which country you contribute to is set by a social security agreement rather than by where you are tax resident. Treat the take-home figure as the optimistic end of the range, and the gap is largest where the destination charges no social security of its own.
- Employer National Insurance is shown as an employer cost, so it is outside your take-home. It does not disappear when you move, and it is often the reason an employer says no.
- Cross-border scenario detected. Check the applicable double-tax treaty between United Kingdom and Italy.
- IRPEF national bands + regional (1.23-3.33%) + municipal (0-0.9%) surtaxes. Financial income 26% flat.
The last items are the engine's own disclosures, reproduced rather than summarised. Where a regime is not modelled it is named as not modelled, because a caveat you have to go looking for is not a caveat.