italian or uk company

[laughingboy]

hi guys
looking for a bit of advice (again).
having spent just over a year in umbria (near trasimeno) work is really hard to find (did find one job but was treated like a dog (umbrian) and for 50 hours a week for 500 euro`s a month).
so the only way i can see forward is to start my own business.
thinking along the lines of leasing a minibus setting up website etc. and doing tours,airport pickups etc. having got to know the area very well.
would it be better to set up a company in the uk or italy and would i need any formal qualifications to set up in either country?

we have lived here full time for the last 14 months but still have an address in the uk.

[Sally Donaldson]

Hi. I don't know whether Italy or the UK, Here's the result of a Google search - setting up business Italy - Google Search There are quite a few useful links there.

[Nielo]

You will need a PSV license or equivalent before you can drive paying passengers anywhere. I also think you may need to be a registered tour operator.

Your best bet is to get yourself a good commercialista and have a long chat with him/her.

If you are operating in Italy I would think going down the Italian business road would be a sounder foundation for your business.

Nothing is ever as easy as it seems is it?

[Nicola]

You would really need to go and see a commercialista but I've been talking to them about something similar recently and if you are going to have anything to do with tourists then I think you may have to be classed as a tour guide which involves having to get a special licence.

If you're in Italy it is certainly going to be better for you and not to mention better legally to be an Italian company. But........ there are such an amount of rules, regulations, INPS (NI contributions), taxes and just sheer complications that it would be a heck of a lot easier being a UK company.

I fully sympathise with you - job situation here is bad, any jobs that are available are poorly paid and rarely "in regola" but unfortunately, for a country of small businesses they don't exactly make going self-employed that easy either.

Good luck!!

[herealready]

Setting up this kind of business is expensive, I have a friend who has had a taxi/chauffeur business for the last 15 years and is now looking to sell his license (he is asking 50,000 euro) thats just for the license, the cars are extra, also you have to insure heavily as well. so do your home work before you commit to anything.