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Danish Why Lazio Qualifies for the 7% Tax Incentive Lazio was not originally part of Italy’s southern tax incentive program, but a special exception means a handful of small towns in northern Lazio now qualify for the 7% flat tax regime for foreign retirees. These are all remote communities in Rieti province, included because they lie in the high-risk seismic “crater” of the devastating 2009/2016 Central Italy earthquakes. As we have detailed time and again, to benefit, a retiree must settle in a town under 30,000 inhabitants (up from 20,000 as of April 2026) in this quake-affected zone, allowing them to pay a flat 7% tax on foreign income for up to 10 years. In Lazio, that narrows down to just 14 villages: places like Amatrice, Accumoli, Leonessa, Cittaducale, and a few others listed by the government’s reconstruction commission. All are quiet, rural locations nestled in the Apennine mountains, well away from big cities. It’s important to note that these towns are very small (most have only a few thousand or few hundred residents) and face ongoing seismic risk, being in Italy’s highest earthquake hazard zones. In other words, Lazio’s 7% tax havens offer scenic, traditional village life, but also the…
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Luca Falda is a Veneto-born writer and strategist with a background in journalism, market research, digital publishing, and finance. A graduate of the University of Padua and a London Institute of Banking & Finance alumnus, he has held senior research roles at AOL, Townsquare Media, and Nordea before moving into investment and real-estate ventures. His work for Magic Towns Italy draws on deep local knowledge of the Veneto, long firsthand expat experience in the UK, USA, Denmark, Malta, and Italy.
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