THEHouse rent you can pay in cash. This is provided for by a provision of the Stability law currently under examination by Parliament, which cancels the obligation to pay the rent by check or debit card, or with traceable and therefore anti-evasion payment methods.
Of course, cash will only be allowed for rentals up to 3 thousand euros: beyond this threshold, the use of cash for any money transfer is prohibited. The ceiling on banknotes is one of the most controversial measures of the maneuver currently being approved, which plans to raise the limit from the current one thousand euros up to 3 thousand euros.
Returning to rents, the 2014 stability law established that rent payments (of any amount) could not be paid in cash. But the provision, reads the technical report on the latest Stability law, "has proved to be of limited effectiveness, also due to the objective difficulty of applying it (among other things, no sanctions are envisaged), while it has created inconvenience for the tourist locations, and more generally to subjects who operate correctly".
Moreover, in February 2014 a Treasury circular had clarified that it was possible to pay in cash up to 1.000 euros, the same threshold as the cash ceiling. Now the limit is raised to 3 euros and rents can also be paid in cash up to this amount.
A similar novelty concerns the transport sector: another provision of the upcoming maneuver provides for raising the ceiling on cash from 3 to XNUMX euros, also for payments of fees for the contractual services of road freight transport.
