The used-car market in Italy

Italy levies no national registration tax. What a car pays on being entered in the public vehicle register is the provincial transcription tax, IPT, charged on engine power: EUR 150.81 for a car up to 53 kW, and EUR 3.5119 for every kilowatt above that — on the whole figure, not on the excess, so a 110 kW car is charged on 110 kW. The amounts were set in lire by ministerial decree 435 of 27 November 1998 and converted to euro by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. Each province then adds a percentage of its own, and the range is the whole of the uncertainty here: 30% in almost every province, 25% in Crotone, Sondrio and Ferrara, 20% in eight others and in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, and no increase at all in Aosta, Bolzano and Trento. A listing does not say which province a car will be registered in, so the figure is shown as the national range rather than as one province's. There is no emissions component and no age reduction: the charge is the same for a new car and a used import of the same power. Some provinces set reduced rates for specific commercial uses — hire, taxi, public transport, goods haulage — which do not apply to a private car and are not modelled. Registration and plate fees are excluded, as everywhere here.

This country charges on the car rather than a flat sum, so the figure above is for one benchmark car — a 2019 diesel of 1968 cm³ and 110 kW bought for EUR 15,000 — and the same car is priced on every market page here so the figures compare. A different car pays a different amount.

Standard VAT rate as published by the European Commission's Taxes in Europe database. Shown for reference only. Whether VAT is actually due on a used car depends on the transaction rather than on the country, so no VAT charge is calculated anywhere in this service; the cases are set out in the method.

Motorway tolls are charged by distance travelled. Some sections use an open system with a fixed rate rather than a distance charge.