Financial Law 2015: Social Security Exemption For New Hirings - National Insurance - Italy Mondaq uses cookies on this website. By using our website you agree to our use of cookies as set out in our Privacy Policy. Learn More Accept Home Europe Italy Tax CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLE Share Forward this article Save & File (Pocket) LinkedIn Twitter Facebook Follow Question Print Translate Translation Italy: Financial Law 2015: Social Security Exemption For New Hirings 11 March 2015 by Batini Colombo Saottinis' Tax Team Batini Colombo Saottini To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. INTRODUCTION With the definitive publication of the Financial Law for 2015 (Law nr. 190, dated December 23 2014, published in the Italian Official Gazette nr. 300 dated December 29 2014), relevant news have been enforced for new employment allowances. A tax allowance for hiring at indefinite time has been introduced, but at the same time has been revoked the allowance foreseen in case of hiring of long-time unemployed people. The new provisions have a lot of shadows and few lights, in particular for the entitlement to get allowances. In fact, if from one side employers hiring employees for an indefinite-time contract are not subject to social security payment for 3 years, on the other side they have cancelled the allowance foreseen for the employers hiring workers unemployed for at least 24 months. But while this was granted for an indefinite time, the new one can be granted only new employment happened in the year 2015. INDEFINITE TIME EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS Paragraph 118 of the said Law exempts: the employer from the payment of Pension Contribution, up to a maximum amount of Euro 8.060,00 for each year, in case the employee is hired with an indefinite-time employment agreement. The employers under consideration are the "private employers", therefore including any industry, professional firms (Accountants, Lawyers, Architects, etc.) working as privately owned legal entities. But, unfortunately, the effectiveness of the exemption has a time limit of 1 year, therefore the employee has to be hired between January 1st 2015 and December 31st 2015, and the exemption will be applied for the following 36 months. We must also highlight that, as per paragraph 121 of the above mentioned law, funds available from Italian Government budget are limited to 1 Billion Euro for the years 2015, 2016 and 2017 and to 500 Millions Euro for the year 2018. This means that, making a rough calculation, employees that could benefit of this exemption are limited to 124.069. AMOUNT OF THE EXEMPTION The exemption is for the total amount of Social Security Contribution to be paid by the employer to the maximum extent of Euro 8.060,00 for each employee for each of the 3 years following the hiring. The amount chargeable to the employee (9.19% or 9,49% in case of more than 50 employees) is not affected by the exemption. Healthcare protection and contribution paid for safety on working places (INAIL) have to be regularly paid by the employer during the entire said period. It has been confirmed that during the 36 months involved the employee is entitled to receive the pension contribution coverage, but this is still unclear and should be clarified better by authorities. EXCLUSIONS FROM THE EXEMPTION The exemption can't be applied to employers hiring employees already employed with an indefinitetime contract in the 6 months preceding the new hiring with any employer. Are also excluded those employees who have already benefit of the exemption with a former indefinitetime employment contract. The check of this requisite is quite difficult, since the employee can't be aware of the use of the exemption by a former employer. In addition the exemption is not applicable in case the employee was already employed with an indefinite-time contract in the 3 months preceding the enforcement of the law, also with companies of the same group (controlled or connected by or with the employer) under article 2359 of the Italian Civil Code. Therefore any breach of the employment contract happened between September 30th and December 29th 2014, for any reason, will preclude the exemption if the employee is re-hired by the same employer even if the 6 months term has expired. The calculation of the 6 months period has to be done on the base of 183 days (365/2). The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter. 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