Home appliance bonus, 300,000 taxpayers stop furniture discount

The incompatibility between thefurniture bonus and the home appliance bonus becomes operative. The next pre-filled declaration will bring it to light, thanks to the transfer of data between the Ministry of Enterprise and Industry and the Revenue Agency. This is the effect of the measure (86234/2026), just published by the Revenue Agency, which will involve the 300 thousand taxpayers who had access to the voucher in 2025.

The domestic appliance bonus - it should be recalled - was created to encourage the replacement of old appliances with high-efficiency models and was made available on 18 November by the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy, with just over 48 million euro in allocations.The funds, however, were burnt within a short time, thanks to the large number of applications received immediately. In 2025, around 300,000 families had access to the voucher, although the applications, which were then left in the queue, were many more: over 550,000 already in the first hours, to more than one million.

The voucher, however, is incompatible with other benefits. This was established by Mimit itself, which, in one of its Faqs, explained how "the contribution is granted only once per family and, in any case, cannot be combined with other concessions, as well as with other benefits, including tax benefits, relating to the same type of product (e.g. the furniture bonus)". Therefore, the 300,000 taxpayers who received the voucher cannot, on the same expenses, also cumulate the furniture bonus.

Thus arrives the provision of the Inland Revenue. This dictates the operating procedures to ensure that Mimit transmits telematically to the Revenue Agency 'the data relating to vouchers used by end users for the purchase of electrical appliances included in the Computerised List of Household Appliances'. The data will be linked to the year in which the voucher was used. For each voucher, the tax code of the person who used it, purchasing the appliance, and the amount used will be reported.

But where will this mass of data end up? The Revenue order itself explains: 'The data transmitted are used for the purposes of the processing of the precompiled tax return, as well as for the purposes of control activities' of the Agency. Thus, the pre-filled tax return will be 'branded', specifying who has used the home appliance bonus.