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Key Changes in the 2026 Budget Law

Jan. 19
Reading time: 21 min

News No. 5/2026


On January 1, 2026, Law No. 199 of December 30, 2025, came into effect, setting forth provisions on the “State Budget for Fiscal Year 2026 and the Multi-Year Budget for the 2026–2028 period.”

The law, consisting of twenty-one articles—the first of which (the longest) contains 973 paragraphs—outlines important measures regarding labor and social security; this News summarizes the main tax and social security provisions.

 

Table of Contents

  • 1) Revision of the IRPEF regulations (Art. 1, para. 3), pp. 2–3

  • 2) Preferential Tax Treatment for Contractual Wage Increases (Art. 1, paras. 7 and 12), p. 3

  • 3) Tax Exemption for Productivity Bonuses (Art. 1, paras. 8, 9, and 12), p. 3

  • 4) Substitute tax on bonuses and allowances for night work, work on holidays, and shift work (Art. 1, paras. 10–12 and 18), p. 4

  • 5) Increase in the non-taxable amount of electronic meal vouchers (Art. 1, para. 14), p. 4

  • 6) Tax Exemption on Dividends from Shares Allocated to Employees (Art. 1, para. 13), p. 5

  • 7) Card Dedicated to YOU (Art. 1, paras. 5 and 6), p. 5

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