BOLOGNA INSIDE Second Edition - IWF Bologna

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INDIVIDUAL TAX CODE
Getting a codice fiscale (individual tax code) is just about the easiest thing you’ll ever
have to do here, which is good, as you need it for anything having to do with money,
including getting paid legally and opening a bank account.
Go to the Ufficio Entrate (Income Office) nearest you with your passport and/or permesso
di soggiorno. See UFFICI FINANZARI in the phone book for office addresses and phone
numbers. In a matter of minutes you will be given a little card with your own personal
tax code stamped on it. If you have any questions about the procedure, call the central
information line. The only trick is to make sure that you give your names as written on
your passport. There is a website that allows you to calculate your own tax code but you
need the official card as well: www.comuni.it/servizi/codfisc.
Ufficio Entrate
Via Marco Emilio Lepido, 178 (branch offices listed on website)
Tel. 051.4131711
Numero verde 848.800444 central information line
http://emiliaromagna.agenziaentrate.it/site.php?page=home
RESIDENCY
You need to become a resident to sign up your child for school and get official working
papers, among other things. You apply for residenza (residency) through an office in your
quartiere called the ufficio anagrafe (vital statistics office).
Until your residence is official, you will be given a temporary document verifying that
you’ve applied. You can use this document to do things requiring residency, such as
applying for health coverage, see Chapter 4: Health.
One or two weeks after you have applied to become a resident, the police will stop by the
address listed on your application to verify that you really do live where you said. Put
your name by the doorbell, even with a temporary sticker, so they know where to ring. If
you’re not at home, they will leave a postcard to let you know that they will return. Once
the police verify that your paperwork has been completed, notification that your
application for residency has been approved will be mailed to you.
IDENTIFICATION CARD
EU citizens use their carta d’identità (identification card) to travel from one EU country
to another. Non-EU citizens who become official residents are not granted this privilege,
but the identification card is still a very handy document to have. Anyone who asks you
for identification will recognize it immediately. Get the identity card at your local
anagrafe. In Italy, you are required to carry identification with you at all times, and if
you don’t want to carry your passport, you should at least have your carta d’identità. If
you are stopped randomly by the authorities (which does happen on the Italian roadways)
they immediately ask for this document. Foreigners must also carry a copy of their
permesso di soggiorno.