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As Italy heads back to work, many people will already be planning their next holiday. From school holidays to public holidays, here's how to maximise your time off.
It can feel like most information about tax in Italy is aimed at employees, so how do things compare if you're self employed, including for those on the flat tax?
Delivery riders dashed around Rome in the hottest hours of the day on Wednesday as activists with a thermal imaging camera detected blistering temperatures in the streets.
If you're looking at a move to Italy for work this year, you may be wondering if your skills are in demand. Here's the latest snapshot of the jobs Italian employers are trying to fill.
After Italy restricted citizenship by descent earlier this year, a new decree opens up a work visa pathway for US nationals who can prove Italian ancestry.
Italy is opening a new pathway for some people of Italian descent to move to the country to work, nine months after drastically restricting citizenship by descent.
It’s often said that you don’t need a partita Iva (Italian VAT number) if you make less than €5,000 per year from freelance or self-employed work - so what's the reality?
Italy has a higher rate of self-employed workers than almost any other EU country, and the reasons for this tell us a lot about how the Italian economy works.
Working for yourself in Italy is an appealing prospect for many – but how can you get started as a freelancer here, and what should you know about the laws and taxes? The Local’s self-employed readers in Italy share their best tips.
Freelancing or starting your own business is the right option for many people who move to Italy, though some say it’s harder to do here than in other EU countries. We’d like to hear from readers who’ve done it.
Headlines about the digital nomad visa may make remote work in Italy sound appealing, but there are some important questions to ask first about everything from tax to wifi speeds.
With the introduction of a digital nomad visa last year, foreign freelancers have another option to move to Italy besides the self-employment 'visto'. We broke down the main differences to help you decide which one's best for you.
Losing your job is never ideal, but for those in Italy on a work permit there's another layer of worry. Will you lose your residency rights? Can you stay in Italy while you look for a new job?
If you’re job-hunting in Italy, following Italian CV etiquette will increase your chances of impressing recruiters and give you a head start over other applicants.
Italy’s government said it will issue nearly 500,000 work visas for non-EU nationals from 2026 to 2028 under efforts to expand legal immigration channels in response to labour shortages.
Almost 100,000 university graduates aged 25 to 34 have left Italy over the past 10 years, new figures showed, amid growing concerns over the cost of the country's brain drain.
