Taxes, reliefs, reimbursements, concessions, pre-filled, income, income from work, 8×1000, 5×1000 and who knows what else: spring is always a complicated period for Italian taxpayers. Because it is the period of the tax return.
Luckily there is technology, which for some years now has been helping people in this: there are apps and sites that allow you to fulfill your tax obligations in a much simpler way than before. An example (indeed: the example) is Taxfix, the leading platform in Europe for this type of transactionwhich recently raised an additional $ 220 million in funding, which allowed her to become a unicorn. Yes, because Taxfix is a startup: founded in 2016 in Berlin, it has so far managed over 1 billion tax files in the countries where it is present. Italy included.
“We have been here since 2020, and this is the second market for us, with about half a million app downloads between Android and iOS – he told us. Alessia Camera, Taxfix marketing manager for our country – Here we have about fifteen employees, as well as about thirty people including consultants, accountants and customer care “. Compared to Germany, where “the procedures are simpler” and “the app uses an interface similar to that used by the government for tax returns”, in Italy “everything is a bit more complicated and a lot of documentation is needed “.
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Which is why apps like Taxfix are thriving. Camera explained to us how it works: “You download the app, register and reply to a questionnaire consisting of 10 questions, which we need to understand the taxpayer and his tax situation “, that is, if he is self-employed or employee, what type of contract he has, what expenses do he think he can deduct, if he has dependent children and so on. And then? “Then it is necessary to upload the necessary documents”, which is perhaps the point where Taxfix is really able to lend a hand: “You no longer need book at a CAF and queue – Camera told us again – Documents can be converted into pdf or not, even a photo is enough, and you can do everything both from the app and from our site, which are linked together “. In short: after logging in, you can finish on one side what you started on the other.
As mentioned, Taxfix provides customers with a team of tax consultants who can be contacted by email or via WhatsApp at any time: after the procedure is concluded, you will receive an email confirming its completion or requesting any documentation. additional. The service obviously has a cost: “In the end, the customer pays € 49.90 – Camera confirmed – The interest of users has already been growing in the months of March and April (when the tax return can already be done, ed), but the peak arrives between May and June, when the pre-filled return becomes available “. There is also a Glossary in the app, the purpose of which is to help you learn about the topic: “We want to create a culture of taxes, to make sure that people are not afraid of it and don’t be intimidated – the company told us – so they can learn, even asking questions that may seem trivial “.
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The service offered by Taxfix is aimed only at individuals, but there is something similar also for VAT: her name is Xolo, she was born in 2015 and it is a platform dedicated to entrepreneurs that automates the processes that traditional accountants perform manually. Accredited with the Revenue Agency, Xolo is used every year by about 100,000 freelancers around the world, to whom it provides a team of accounting experts and solutions based on artificial intelligence and machine learning for the management of billing and expenses, the compilation of the tax return and the payment of taxes.
The service of Xolo costs 24 euros per monthand the company has prepared a series of tips for VAT numbers:
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subscribe to flat-rate tax regimein which the taxation is fixed at 15%, a rate for all that is not applied to the total turnover, but only to the taxable income;
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take advantage of the subsidized regime for startupswhich is valid for the first 5 years of activity and further lowers the rate, bringing it to 5% of taxable income;
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check where and how you can recover VAT paid on the services offered and on the goods sold, focusing on the expenses incurred for your business and documented (all receipts and invoices must bear the VAT number).
It is important to remember that in order to be able to re-enter the subsidized tax regimes, you need some requirements; the main ones are these:
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be a freelancer or a sole proprietorship or family businessexercising a business, art or profession;
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Having a total gross turnover annual that does not exceed 65 thousand euros;
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spend on any employees and other ancillary costs no more than 20 thousand euros in a year;
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reside fiscally in Italy o in an EU state or which in any case respects the rules of transparency in tax communications, provided that at least 75% of the income from the business is produced within the Italian territory.