How not to pay car tax: the solution to benefit from the exemption

The automatic stamp is one of the most hated taxes by Italians, here’s how to try to avoid this always discussed payment

A really difficult year for Italian consumers and citizens. Blame it all on price increases due to inflation and especially increased fuel costs and miscellaneous bills.

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In this context, Italians would gladly avoid paying a decidedly embarrassing and annoying tax. This is the Timbre Auto, the compulsory payment for anyone who owns a car.

While waiting for the resolution decrees, which can definitively suspend the car tax after years of hopes and political promises, the ways to obtain an exemption from the much-discussed tax stamp are appearing.

The three ways to avoid paying car tax in 2022

Italian consumers will be able to avoid paying vehicle tax this year in three ways. The first method is the purchase of an electric or hybrid car, which obviously has significantly lower fuel consumption and gas emissions than other types of engines.

Suffice it to say that in Valle d’Aosta there are 5 years of exemption from Timbre Auto for hybrid cars, as in Liguria. In Marche and Puglia it is reduced to 6 years while in Lombardy there is a 50% reduction on road tax for the first 5 years of hybrids registered after January 1, 2019. In Veneto, Friuli-Veneto Juliana, Trentino-Alto Adige and Sicily, the exemption is for 3 years as well as in Campania, Lazio and Abruzzo. Cars (Ansafoto)

The second solution is to own a historic car, that is to say with a registration of at least 30 years. In this case, exemption from car tax is automatic, but there is another tax to pay: that for flat-rate traffic which varies between 11 and 30 euros depending on the vehicle and the region of residence.

Finally, other exemptions from the 2022 car tax are available for people benefiting from law 104 and their caregivers. That is to say officially recognized people of help for problems of physical or mental handicap and consequently for the close relations who take care of it personally. In this case, for any questions, you can avoid paying the hated stamp.