Senate, passes amendment saving historic centers. Franceschini: very positive

The Senate Budget Committee has approved the bill converting the August decree into law, to which was added an amendment dubbed “save historic centers” and whose rationale is to curb the indiscriminate increase of single rooms for rent in the centers of major tourist cities. The amendment stipulates that those who rent more than four apartments will have to be treated as businesses for tax purposes: thus the benefits reserved for occasional businesses for those who rent more than four houses will lapse.

The text of the bill will now have to get the go-ahead first in the Senate and then in the House, but Cultural Heritage Minister Dario Franceschini is already rejoicing at the outcome. “Very positive,” he said, “the approval in the Senate committee of the norm that brings B&Bs back to the spirit for which they were born, that is, to host people by offering the experience of living in an Italian home.”

“Short-term rentals,” the minister added, “have brought to our country a very interesting type of tourism, which Italy certainly cannot give up today, but it is also right to regulate it to prevent historic centers from being emptied of their inhabitants. In fact, it is not possible for there to be those who pretend to have B&Bs in order to have the favorable tax regime provided for occasional activities while it is to all intents and purposes a business activity. The rule approved last night ensures fair competition both with hotels and among renters: with the 4-apartment limit, the advantageous tax rules will apply only to those who actually rent out their homes and no longer to disguised businesses that buy entire buildings and then rent them out by the day to tourists. With the new provisions, nothing changes for those who rent out as short-term rentals up to four apartments; the rule only treats those who rent out more than four apartments as businesses.”

Senate, passes amendment saving historic centers. Franceschini: very positive

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