What you actually keep in Italy
| Company revenue | UK resident | Standard rates |
|---|---|---|
| £60,000 | £46,831 | £36,273-£10,558 |
| £100,000 | £66,668 | £58,234-£8,434 |
| £150,000 | £87,303 | £85,429-£1,874 |
| £250,000 | £130,448 | £139,819+£9,371 |
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
- The company is assumed to distribute everything it can in the same year, after a director salary at the UK National Insurance threshold. Leaving profit in the company, or paying into a pension from it, changes the answer and is usually worth modelling.
- Corporation tax is charged at UK rates throughout, because a company incorporated in the UK stays UK tax resident wherever its director lives.
- Cross-border scenario detected. Check the applicable double-tax treaty between United Kingdom and Italy.
- Source-country (United Kingdom) dividend withholding tax of 0% applied on the gross dividend; a foreign tax credit is granted in Italy up to the residence-country liability (relief under the applicable double-tax treaty).
- 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.