Taranto

For 2026 Taranto confirmed the municipal IRPEF surcharge at a single rate of 0.8%. Kyma Mobilità issues residents of the paid-parking zones a permit for one car per household, with no fee if requested online. TARI is paid to the Comune in three advance instalments and a balance. OMI rents and prices for the central area and the bus pass are in the data.

Taranto's public housing belongs to the Comune and to ARCA Jonica, the regional housing agency. Applications are accepted only while a call is open, online with SPID, CIE or CNS; residents and people who work in the city on a stable basis can apply. OMI rents and prices for the central area are in the data.

Change of residence is declared on the Comune's online desk; since 1 September 2026 the electronic identity card at the local registry branches is issued only by online appointment. Waste and bulky-item collection are run by Kyma Ambiente. The Pietro Acclavio civic library is on via Salinella.

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).

Kyma Mobilità (formerly AMAT) runs city buses, with timetables and real-time arrivals, paid parking and boat lines. A BRT network is under construction, with temporary diversions on some lines. Students are offered a promotional annual pass. The old town is linked to the Borgo by the swing bridge.

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.

The municipality of Taranto is the single district of ASL Taranto, based at via Giuseppe Scotti. The city hospital is the Presidio Ospedaliero Centrale (SS. Annunziata) in via Bruno; in nearby Statte the ASL runs the Moscati hospital. From 1 October 2026 prescriptions carry booking deadlines tied to their priority class.

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.

The former Ilva steelworks, owned by Acciaierie d'Italia under extraordinary administration, has a wage-guarantee (cassa integrazione) agreement with a training plan. The port, run by the Ionian Sea Port System Authority, has been designated a hub for offshore wind and has a port-employment portal. Since 2024 Taranto has been in the single Special Economic Zone for southern Italy.

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 University of Bari has its Ionian Department in Taranto, with law, economics and courses on maritime and port activities, plus courses of other departments: computer science and cybersecurity, pharmacy, environmental science, marine production and, with the School of Medicine, medicine and health professions.

The city of the Spartans and of two seas: the old town on the island, the Borgo beyond the swing bridge. Holy Week is the time of the hooded "perdoni" and of the Addolorata and Misteri processions, which advance at a very slow pace, the "nazzicata". The city hosted the twentieth Mediterranean Games.

For the Tamburi district the Region approved in 2012 an air-quality plan for PM10 and benzo(a)pyrene. ARPA Puglia announces «wind day» events, to which the Comune has tied ordinances: in 2017 the closure of the district's schools, since 2018 management measures for the steelworks. Temperatures, rainfall and PM10 exceedances are in the data.

The MArTA on Via Cavour, with the Gold of Taranto and the Athlete's Tomb; the old town with the Doric temple, the Aragonese Castle and the cathedral of San Cataldo; the seafront facing the Cheradi islands. In summer, boats to the Isola di San Pietro and the Tour Due Mari. At Easter, the Holy Week rites.

The Parco della Musica, opened in 2024 on the site of the former Baraccamenti Cattolica in the Borgo; the municipal Teatro Fusco and the Cinema Teatro Orfeo; among municipal facilities the PalaMazzola, the Mediterraneo Village pool, the Valente athletics stadium in Salinella and the Iacovone stadium.