Real estate, government promises novelties: from short rentals to cedular for shops

Matteo Salvini wants to abolish restrictions on short-term rentals. Maurizio Leo opens the door to a flat rate for shops and the extension of renovation bonuses at 50% on first homes and 36% on second homes. And Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni claims the government's intervention to cut "the time for the execution of evictions and introduce an emergency procedure to obtain the executive title and thus the release of the property". These are the messages that came from the government at the Confedilizia assembly to reassure property owners.

'Italia is a country founded on home ownership. This is something I try to explain to my colleagues in Brussels: the bond with the house, with parents and grandparents that exists in Italia is not there in any other country,' Salvini said. That is why new taxes are 'absolutely unthinkable', while squatting, from the first to the '47th house', 'must be cleared within the first hours' and cannot have 'any justification'. The deputy prime minister and Minister of Infrastructure added that the majority is open to reflection on short-term rentals to remove restrictions deemed "penalising and excessive" on tourist accommodation, now taxed with coupon at 21% for the first property, at 26% on the second and as a business starting from the third property.

In September, recalled Deputy Minister for the Economy MAurizio Leo, 'Eurostat will have to verify the trend of the accounts with reference to 2025. If the resources are found, we could - I use the conditional because we must be very cautious about resources - possibly extend once again this differentiation of bonuses for renovation work, at 50% for first homes and 36% for second homes'. The 'package' would be associated with 'the re-proposal of the furniture bonus'. But 'we must see how the accounts go because it is absolutely necessary to be prudent at this stage,' Leo added.

He also spoke about the taxation of rents for commercial premises: 'The objective is to arrive at a mechanism of dry coupon taxation, removing this category of rents from progressive taxation,' he said. For shops and workshops "a legal provision has already been envisaged (an intervention in the 2019 budget law for category C1 properties under 600 metres, ndr), by finding the resources we can see adopting such a measure," he added. He went on to recognise that 'keeping commercial and residential leases differentiated is not something that falls within the tax mechanisms, it is an inequality that does not make sense, but we must see the resources we can put on the ground'.