Request for copies of payslips and the Certificazione Unica (Italy)
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For anyone who works or has worked as an employee in Italy and asks the employer, including a former one, for copies of the payslips for certain months and of the yearly tax certificates (Certificazione Unica) for certain years: for a mortgage, the NASpI unemployment benefit, a tax return or to check what was paid. A payslip is due with every payment (Italian Law 4/1953), and the request also counts as access to one's own personal data (art. 15 GDPR), answered within one month. Send it by registered post, PEC or by hand. In Italian.
- Made for use in Italy
- Last updated October 14, 2026
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When to use this document
- The bank wants your latest payslips for a mortgage and you cannot find them.
- You left a company in Italy and your old employer never gave you your payslips or the yearly tax certificate.
- You need to check whether your pay and contributions from past years were paid correctly.
- You want to ask your employer in writing for copies of your payslips and of the CU.
What you fill in
The details the document asks for.
- Employee
- Employee's address
- Employee's codice fiscale (Italian tax code)
- How the letter is sent (printed above the recipient)
- Employer
- Employer's postal address (street and number, postcode and town on separate lines)
- City
- Date
- Period of employment
- Months of the payslips requested (e.g. January to June 2026)
- Years of the Certificazione Unica requested (optional)
Common questions
- Must a former employer in Italy give copies of past payslips?
- A payslip must be handed over with every payment of wages (art. 1 of Italian Law 4/1953). If it is lost, the worker, even after the job has ended, can ask for a copy by exercising the right of access to their own personal data (art. 15 GDPR): the employer answers within one month, extendable by two months for complex requests, and the first copy is free. The reason for the request need not be given.
- What can be done if the employer does not send the payslips requested?
- After one month without an answer, a complaint can be made to Italy's data protection authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali), on the model published on its website. For payslips not handed over, the local labour inspectorate (Ispettorato territoriale del lavoro) can also be asked to step in, on the INL's free form. A patronato helps free of charge to recover the documents and check the amounts.
- By when must an employer in Italy hand over the Certificazione Unica?
- An employer that withholds tax hands over the Certificazione Unica by 16 March of the year after the income year; if the job ends during the year, within twelve days of the worker's request. The certificate's data also appear in the pre-filled tax return of Italy's Agenzia delle Entrate, which can be viewed online free of charge. Domestic workers receive no Certificazione Unica: the family gives them a statement of the wages paid.
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