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Alloggiati Web and tourist tax in Italy: a guide for short-term rentals (2026)

Who must be reported to the police, how fast, what the portal asks for and how the municipal tourist tax (imposta di soggiorno) works — from the law and the official Alloggiati Web pages.

Updated September 22, 2026

In short

Every guest you host — Italian or foreign — is reported to the police through Alloggiati Web within 24 hours of arrival, and on arrival itself for a stay shorter than 24 hours.
There is no national tourist tax rate: each comune (municipality) decides whether to charge it and sets its own rates per person per night — in Bologna in 2026, €4.00 to €7.00.
The guest owes the tourist tax, but the host pays it to the comune, may recover it from the guest, and files a yearly declaration by 30 June.

Guest registration: Alloggiati Web

Who must register

Hotels and all other accommodation, owners and managers of holiday homes and holiday apartments, affittacamere (rooms to let), and anyone who lets a property or part of one on a contract shorter than 30 days, home swaps included. Guests may stay only if they carry a valid identity document.

Deadline

Within 24 hours of the guest's arrival; for a stay shorter than 24 hours, on arrival itself. A 2019 law adds a 6-hour limit for stays of up to 24 hours, but whether it already applies is not clear from the official text — ask your Questura (provincial police headquarters). The safe course: report every guest on the day they arrive.

Where

On alloggiatiweb.poliziadistato.it, the portal of the Polizia di Stato (state police). The Questura gives you the login; short-let hosts add each apartment in the portal and send every guest's form (schedina) against it. Download the signed PDF receipt within 30 days and keep it for 5 years.

What you enter

Surname, first name, sex, date and place of birth, citizenship, arrival date and number of nights (at most 30 per form). The main guest also gives the ID document's type, number and place of issue; family and group members do not. The codes come from the portal's own tables.

Software

Alloggiati Web has an official web service, so a property-management program can check and send guests' forms for you, using your login and a WSKEY (web-service key) that you generate — and can revoke — in the portal. You can also upload a text file with one line per guest.

Fines

The Alloggiati rules set no fine of their own. The general penalty in art. 17 of the TULPS (the public-security law) is arrest for up to 3 months or a fine, stated in the law text as up to 400,000 lire; the euro amount could not be confirmed, so ask your Questura.

Tourist tax (imposta di soggiorno)

What it is: A municipal tax on overnight stays, charged per person per night; many hosts search for it as tassa di soggiorno. Some cities, such as Rome and Venice, charge a contributo di soggiorno (stay contribution) under another law instead.
Who sets the amount: Each comune. National law lets provincial capitals, unions of comuni and towns on the regional lists of resorts and art cities introduce it, graded by price, up to €5 per night, with a higher cap allowed in some cases. Each comune sets its own rates, exemptions and procedures, so check the comune where your unit stands.
2026 amounts: Bologna, per person per night, by the price per person per night: €1–30.99, €4.00; €31–70.99, €5.80; €71–120.99, €6.50; over €121, €7.00. Where an agent or online portal collects the rent for a short let, it is 10.5% of the price, capped at €7; tax is due for at most 5 nights in a row. Rates for other cities could not be confirmed from official sources — check your comune.
Who pays less: Each comune decides; there is no national list. In Bologna, for example, residents, children under 14, people with a certified severe disability and one companion, and some hospital patients and their companions pay nothing.
How it is paid: The guest owes the tax; the host is responsible for paying it to the comune, may recover it from the guest, and files a yearly declaration online by 30 June of the following year. In Bologna you collect it when the stay is paid, give a receipt, and file a return and pay each quarter — by 15 April, 15 July, 15 October and 15 January — on the comune's GEIS portal and through pagoPA.

For every guest

Before arrival, collect every guest's name, sex, date and place of birth and citizenship, and the main guest's ID document — an online check-in does this for you.
Within 24 hours of arrival — on arrival itself for a shorter stay — send each guest's form to Alloggiati Web.
Download the signed PDF receipt within 30 days and keep it for 5 years.
Pay the tourist tax and file the returns your comune asks for; the yearly declaration is due by 30 June.

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Questions

Do I have to report Italian guests too?

Yes. Every guest is reported to Alloggiati Web, Italians included, not only foreigners. For a family, one spouse fills in the form and names the other spouse and the children; a group leader can do the same for a guided group.

Do I have to report the guest's departure?

Not according to the law and the portal's manuals, which set out an arrival report only. You give the number of nights on arrival, at most 30 per form.

Can I pay the tourist tax as a flat rate?

No national flat rate exists: every official source we read charges the tax per person per night. Whether your comune offers a lump sum was not confirmed — ask the comune.

Do I also need a CIN?

Yes. Every unit let for tourism or as a short let needs a CIN (codice identificativo nazionale, national ID code) from the Ministry of Tourism, shown outside the building and in every ad. Letting without one costs €800–8,000; not showing it, €500–5,000 per unit.

Official sources

Checked against art. 109 of the TULPS (R.D. 773/1931), the decree of 7 January 2013, the official Alloggiati Web pages, art. 4 of D.Lgs. 23/2011, art. 13-ter of D.L. 145/2023 and the Comune di Bologna's pages on 22 September 2026. Tourist tax rates, exemptions and deadlines differ from comune to comune and change often, and the fine for unreported guests is stated in lire in the law text we read — confirm with your comune and your Questura. This guide is not legal advice.

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