✅ To get the Italian Tax Code (or CF, codice fiscale), you need to apply for it before your arrival in Milan, through the Italian embassy in your Country, as you book your apartment in Milan.

Once you are here, it will be much more complicated, it will take a lot of your time and efforts 😓
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⚠️ If you don’t manage, unfortunately, to get the Italian Tax Code before arriving in Milan, here you are the procedure to apply for it once you are in Milan:
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• You need to go personally to one of the offices of the “Agenzia delle Entrate” in Milan (Tax Authority).
  You need before to take an appointment here.
  

Video How to request Online an appointment at the Agenzia delle Entrate.

The available dates could be even after 1 month *.
If you go directly without an appointment, you may risk they don’t accept you.

Please bring there the following printed papers:

– AA48 form filled/signed (here you can see how/where to fill it),
– this letter filled/signed,
– your passport, visa and your university in Milan acceptance letter.

They should give you your Italian CF the same day.
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• If you are a student, I would recommend you to ask your university in Milan if you can apply for the CF through them. But sometimes they provide you a temporary CF not valid, because not registered by the Tax Authority.

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• If you are extra EU citizen, once you are in Milan and you go to the Questura (Italian police) to apply for the “Permit of Stay” (Permesso di Soggiorno) they could sometimes provide your Italian tax code, but not always.
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⏩️ Did you get the Italian tax code? Please check here if it’s valid ⏪️

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🧐 Why do you need the Italian Tax code, even if you are staying in Italy for just a few months?

You need the CF, mainly to allow the landlord to register the lease contract.
He’s required by law to do it within 30 days from your arrival *, to avoid to pay a fine.
If you don’t provide your CF in time, you’ll be charged by that fine.

——-⚠️   Somebody, some universities in Milan as well, is recently saying it’s not needed anymore the CF of not-Italian renters and it’s possible to register the contract also without their tax code, BUT IT’S NOT TRUE!!
If you don’t have the CF, the landlord is required to collect, fill and sign a lot of papers, take the appointment to the Tax agency to go there personally, take a lot of time and efforts to go there and make the line. Actually none of the landlords is available to do that.
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Thank you for your collaboration and understanding.
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Your Italian Codice Fiscale, it will be a paper similar to this one:

 

✅ Some other useful information about your arrival in Milan.