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TARI Tax 2024

 

Just had my TARI bill for 2024.  I used the PagoPA website to pay it online 

I had major problems with it not accepting my payment - it seemed to freeze after the card details were entered.

Travelling back from Lake Orta area in N Italy, we travelled to the Simplon Pass to reach our first overnight stop in Sion.

Imagine our delight to find that a landslide has closed the pass "for the foreseeable future"

Don't forget - IMU 1st payment due 16th June

Swiss Motorway Vignette - Online E-Purchase.

 

You can now buy a e-vignette online.  All electronic, so no sticker issued.  It work by using your car number plate. 

 

We used to use Book Depository to get books for our Italian friends at Christmas.

Book Depository now closed.  Does anyone know of an Italian (or EU) bookshop that will accept orders from the UK and deliver to an Italian address?

Train travel from UK to Italy 

 

Open Log Fires in Piemonte [and other areas]

 

DRIVING THROUGH FRANCE  -  LOW EMISSION ZONES.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66449514

 

EU Entry Permit Required From 2024

 

IMU DISCOUNT FOR UK PENSIONERS

 

I am aware that some posters on this site have got the IMU discount for UK Pensioners with a holiday home in Italy, that is not rented out at all.

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2 hrs after writing this my Comune newsletter informed me that my Bank, BNP, is closing/has closed my Branch - along with 299 others .

Don't know whether this will work, but .............

 

Can you get an Italian neighbour to buy a cheap pay as you go mobile for you? 

Until you get to Italy, they will need to forward any messages to you, or  they could send you the SIM card to you.

(I have an Italian bank account, so pay by Direct Debit - but SEN do send me me regular bills in the UK, so I know what is being paid)

Not sure what the problem with UK lighting in Italy is. 

Suppose there could be a problem with earthing in really old installations, but that's the only possible problem that I can think of.

One suggestion though - I found it very difficult to find bayonet fitting light bulbs, so buy fittings with the screw fittings. (And takes LED bulbs with you as they use so much less power  --  my place only has a 3kW supply, so  having lots of non-LED bulbs on can take up a fair bit of the supply.)

I would say, however, that you will get a really good choice of light  fittings in Italy

Good luck 

Good question, probably applies to UK residents as well.

HOPEFULLY you will get an answer.

Well done Silvia - two responses so far, (plus this one), and both adverts.

Following on from Modicasa and Ugo's comments - it would appear you really only have two options for taking your fiance's name.

1.   Marry him in Ireland

2.   Change your surname to match his before you marry him in Italy. 

 

Good luck

My Italian bank has emailed me today confirming payment made. 

Hopefully I'll be over there before the next one in June.

I'm lucky, the Comune sends me the F24 by email, so I just sign it and email it to my Italian bank for payment.

Remember, (assuming you are from the UK) that if you are out if the UK for more than 6 months (continuous), you (in theory,) lose the right to NHS services when you return. And any travel insurance and car insurance is similarly time limited

Back in the early 2000's, I bought my house in Italy.   We decided it was easier for me to be the sole purchaser, although both my wife and I attended the signing at the Notary's. 

He was OK with her not being a purchaser,  but asked that my wife countersign each page of the documentation to indicate her agreement with me being sole owner.