Virtual office in Italy

Every Italian company has a registered office in a named municipality: the S.r.l. articles must state the municipality of the registered office beside the capital and the corporate purpose. A virtual office is a service that supplies an address and mail handling. Whether such an address serves your plan depends on the activity, any licence it needs, and what your bank and the authorities will accept; no single rule covers all of that, so ask before you sign a lease or a contract.

Check in a profile whether the address is a real office with staff, how post and official notices are forwarded, and whether you can also use a meeting room. Ask what happens to the address if you later move, since the Register must be updated each time.

Twenty-three firms in Italy offer a virtual office: 17 accounting firms, 4 law firms and 2 corporate service providers. Fifteen are small, 7 medium-sized and 1 part of a large network. All 23 work in Italian and 19 in English. Eighteen state a focus on foreign clients, and four name innovative start-ups among the entities they handle. Twelve are in Milan, six in Rome and five in Turin; one publishes prices. A company still to be formed can look at company formation in Italy.