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Bonus furniture and appliances 2022, everything is about to change: Italian consumers in the know
Bonus furniture and appliances 2022, everything is about to change: Italian consumers in the know. Gotta hurry ’cause the money’s falling
There is no doubt that in recent years the various bonuses launched by successive governments have represented significant incentives for consumers. But there is a deadline for everything and even the 2022 Furniture and Appliances Bonus is about to change a lot. This is why Italian consumers should be careful.
From January 1, 2023, in fact, the maximum ceiling for deductible expenses will drop from 10,000 to 5,000 euros. A drop expected for some time and physiological, given that initially, in 2021, the deduction was actually equal to 16 thousand euros. But the money to finance the measure has been cut and therefore those who want to take advantage of this ceiling will have to decide quickly.
What are we talking about, for those who don’t know it? The furniture and household appliances premium allows you to benefit from a personal income tax deduction of 50% on the costs incurred for the purchase of various goods. In particular, all new furniture, such as beds, cabinets, tables, chairs, chests of drawers, bookcases, desks, sofas, armchairs, mattresses, sideboards and light fixtures.
But also new appliances with an energy class not lower than A + (A or higher in the case of ovens or washer-dryers). In practice, washing machines, dryers, refrigerators, dishwashers, electric cookers, microwave ovens, electric heaters, electric fans and air conditioning devices
Premium furniture and household appliances 2022, the necessary conditions to access it
However, to take advantage of the 2022 Furniture and Appliances Bonus, the property in which they are located must also meet specific characteristics. Indeed, it had to be the subject of ordinary maintenance, extraordinary maintenance, restoration and conservative rehabilitation, property renovation on the common areas of the apartment buildings.
Or extraordinary maintenance, restoration and conservative rehabilitation, renovation of buildings on individual apartments. We remind you that ordinary maintenance work for individual apartments (such as painting the walls and ceilings, replacing the floors, replacing the exterior fittings or redoing the interior plaster) does not qualify for the bonus. 
Finally, the reconstruction or restoration of a property damaged by calamitous events. Or even restoration, conservative rehabilitation and renovation of buildings, concerning entire buildings. They must be carried out by real estate construction or renovation companies and by construction cooperatives which sell or transfer the property within 18 months of the end of the work.