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Identity Papers / ID cards
Suggestions. It is advisable to keep a photocopy of your passport or ID card with you and leave the original ones in the hotel or in a security box for the rest of your staying here. These copies can be useful if you lose your bag or you are robbed. In that case you can show the copies to the police at the time of report. Customs Travelers from EU Countries. The European Union Area makes up a common space where people and goods are free to come and go within. Travelers coming from one of these Countries to Italy can easily bring goods, bought in normal stores, coming in or going out, without any limit or formal measures. Although those kinds of products with taxes on manufacturing and consumer can circulate within certain limits.
Products bought over these limits are considered for trading, in that case you will need to have running papers with you. Travelers from extra EU Countries. Importing money is free up to 20 million, for surplus import you will need to fill in a form at Customs which you will be given back at the time of authentication, this form has to be shown at the time you exit the Country of Italy. Exporting values at bearer is free up to 20 million. Over 20 million you can export within the limits of the amount resulting from the papers issued at Customs at the time of importing. As for no-bearer values the exporting is allowed filling in a specific form at Customs. Going out of Italy there is no limit of value. Therefore there can be limit measures arranged by the Country where the tourist is coming from. It is possible to get the VAT rebate (Value Added Tax) for goods bought in Italy: you have to ask the seller for the invoice and send it back as you have got it checked at Customs while you are leaving the Country. We remind you that the merchandise has always to be shown at Customs. Concerning the import of consumer goods, travelers who carry the goods with their personal baggage can benefit an exemption from customs taxes (on these goods) at two conditions: the import has to be for personal purpose not for trading and their value up to 175 ECU (about 339,000). this limit is reduced to 90 ECU (about 174,000) for children under 15. Besides as far as concerns some kinds of goods (alcohol , tobacco, and so on..), they are exempt from tax within the limits previously listed. For those kinds of goods such as alcohol, tobacco, perfumes, and so on.., the exemption is granted to one kind only The value of those kinds listed before is not be considered in the total value of 1,565 ECU of the objects to be exempted. Penalties. Over the permitted limits the goods have to be declared at Customs. On the quantity exceeding the exemption you will have to pay customs taxes. Travelers who carry with them inside their baggage consumer goods or objects of a value exceeding the one allowed with the exemption without declaring it at Customs, apart from paying customs taxes will be considered committing a smuggling crime and will be punished with a fine worth from twice up to ten times the value of taxes. In case the goods are to be confiscated, they can be bought again paying, besides the fine and the customs taxes, a price equal to their value at the moment of buying them. For further information you can contact the Direction District of Customs in Rome at 0650241 or the Customs Offices inside the airport
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