Como

For 2025 the Department of Finance lists for Como a municipal IRPEF surcharge at a single rate of 0.7%, with an exemption for taxable incomes up to 15,000 euros (resolution no. 59 of 2 December 2024, flagged as a change). Rents, prices per square metre and the transport pass are in the data.

Public housing (servizi abitativi pubblici) in Como is assigned through notices of Ambito territoriale 31, with online applications on the regional platform. The 2026 notice ran from 1 July to 4 September 2026. Rents and prices per square metre are in the data.

Municipal counters for electoral registry and similar services are by appointment, bookable from the Comune's website. The Biblioteca comunale Paolo Borsellino leads the Como intermunicipal library system and holds the legal deposit for the province.

To enter with a dog, cat or ferret you need a microchip, an EU pet passport or health certificate and a valid rabies vaccination. Mandatory registration in the regional pet register, lead at all times and a muzzle to hand. Pets allowed on trains under Trenitalia rules and in apartment buildings by law.

Rules depend on who is arriving: EU/EEA/Swiss citizens (no visa, registration with the Comune after three months), non-EU citizens for stays up to 90 days (Schengen rule, type C visa where required) and for long stays (national type D visa and a residence permit within eight working days of arrival).

Como's urban network is run by ASF Autolinee, with e-buses, urban-network and urban-area tickets on e·TIC, Swipe On Lake contactless payment and the ASF Flex on-demand service. The historic centre is a restricted-traffic zone (ZTL) with permits requested online via SPID or CIE. Monthly pass price in the data.

Euro, cards accepted almost everywhere, a legal cash limit. Anyone living in Italy for most of the year is tax resident and taxed on worldwide income under three IRPEF brackets; specific regimes exist for the self-employed (forfettario), inbound workers, foreign pensioners and new residents. Contributions go to INPS; annual return with the 730 or Redditi form.

Como belongs to ATS Insubria; care is delivered by ASST Lariana, whose legal seat is via Napoleona 60 in Como. The Sant'Anna hospital, at via Ravona 20 in San Fermo della Battaglia, has a 24-hour emergency room and a level-II DEA. You can choose a GP online, at a pharmacy or at a counter.

Non-EU pensioners enter with the elective residence visa, EU pensioners through free movement; public healthcare is accessible by compulsory or voluntary registration. Optional 7% regime on foreign income for those moving to small southern municipalities. Cheap houses in villages, services concentrated in cities.

According to the Como-Lecco Chamber of Commerce study (May 2026), at the end of 2025 there were 955 active textile firms in Como employing about 11,232 people, 6% of the provincial total; textile exports reached 1,275.7 million euros in 2025 (provisional), 20.5% of the provincial total.

A VAT number (partita IVA) from the Agenzia delle Entrate for freelancers; for businesses the Comunicazione Unica to the Registro delle Imprese, which also notifies the Agenzia, INPS, INAIL and SUAP. Main forms: sole proprietorship, SNC/SAS, SRL and SRLS, SPA. Compulsory PEC, annual chamber fee, e-invoicing. Invitalia incentives; non-EU citizens need a self-employment permit or the investor visa.

The Università dell'Insubria has two main poles, Varese and Como, plus Busto Arsizio. Como hosts the Humanities Campus (S. Abbondio) and the Science and Technology Campus (Valleggio). Student support covers grants, housing and residences, rent fund, catering and a transport call.

Visits include the Basilica Cattedrale with its late Gothic façade, the Tempio Voltiano (civic museums, 1928), the Pinacoteca civica in the seventeenth-century Palazzo Volpi, the Silk Museum and the Faro Voltiano in Brunate (1927), plus villas, gardens and boat trips on the lake.