{"id":44129,"date":"2026-07-13T09:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T09:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toscocountry.com\/?p=44129"},"modified":"2026-07-13T09:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T09:27:07","slug":"how-to-lower-your-purchase-taxes-using-the-prima-casa-first-home-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toscocountry.com\/en\/how-to-lower-your-purchase-taxes-using-the-prima-casa-first-home-law\/","title":{"rendered":"How to lower your purchase taxes using the Prima Casa (First Home) law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Thinking about <\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">buying a house in Tuscany<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">? <\/span><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">How to <\/span><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">lower<\/span> <span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">your <\/span><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">purchase taxes<\/span> <span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">using the <\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Prima Casa<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>(First Home) law<\/strong><\/span>\u2014even if you don&#8217;t plan to live there forever!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Buying with the prima casa facilities,<em> instead of paying the standard 9%<\/em> registration tax, you only pay <\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">2%<\/span><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"cvGsUA block-font-kerning-normal block-font-feature-liga-off block-font-feature-clig-off block-font-feature-calt-off direction-ltr align-center para-style-body\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">TIC<\/span> <span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">TAC:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"cvGsUA block-font-kerning-normal block-font-feature-liga-off block-font-feature-clig-off block-font-feature-calt-off direction-ltr align-center para-style-body\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">To get this discount, you must legally register your residency in that town within <\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">18 <\/span><\/strong><\/span><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>months of buying<\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Italian courts have confirmed <em>there is <\/em><\/span><em><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">no minimum time<\/span><\/em><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\"><em> you have to keep<\/em> your residency there. Once it&#8217;s approved, you can legally move your residency somewhere else or even back to your home country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"cvGsUA block-font-kerning-none block-font-feature-liga-off block-font-feature-clig-off block-font-feature-calt-off direction-ltr align-center para-style-body\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">VERY IMPORTANT!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">The moment you <\/span><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">move your residency out<\/span><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">, the house becomes a &#8220;second home&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">and you start paying IMU (annual municipal property tax).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">If you sell the house in <\/span><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">less than 5 years<\/span><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">, you\u2019ll have to pay back the tax discount plus a <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>26%<\/strong> <strong>capital gains tax<\/strong> <\/span>(unless you buy another Italian home within a year).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about buying a house in Tuscany? How to lower your purchase taxes using the Prima Casa (First Home) law\u2014even if you don&#8217;t plan to live there forever! Buying with the prima casa facilities, instead of paying the standard 9% registration tax, you only pay 2%. TIC TAC: To get this discount, you must legally register your residency in that town within 18 months &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toscocountry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toscocountry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toscocountry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toscocountry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toscocountry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toscocountry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44132,"href":"https:\/\/toscocountry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44129\/revisions\/44132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toscocountry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toscocountry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toscocountry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toscocountry.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}