Recommended INPS scheme:
SEPARATA
Flat-rate scheme (forfettario)
Eligible for the flat-rate scheme?
Yes
Threshold:
€85,000
Profitability coefficient:
67%
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Classification
- CATTIVITÀ MANIFATTURIERE
- 12.00.00Produzione di prodotti del tabacco
Description
- manufacture of tobacco products and products of tobacco substitutes: cigarettes, fine-cut tobacco, cigars, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco, snuff
- manufacture of homogenised or reconstituted tobacco
- stemming and redrying of tobacco
Exclusion notes
Excluded from class 12.00:
- growing or preliminary processing of tobacco, see 01.15, 01.63
- manufacture of electronic cigarette vapour liquids, including closed refills, see 20.59
- manufacture of electronic cigarettes, (vapes), see 32.99
Frequently asked questions
I want to manufacture cigars and pipe tobacco: is the ATECO code 12.00.00?
Yes. 12.00.00 covers the manufacture of cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco, and snuff, as well as tobacco substitute products. It is the sole heading in division 12.
I only cut and re-dry raw tobacco leaf without making a finished product: does it still fall under 12.00.00?
Yes. Cutting, stemming, and re-drying tobacco are listed as activities within this heading, together with the manufacture of homogenised or reconstituted tobacco. You remain on 12.00.00 even without producing a finished cigarette.
I produce herbal cigarettes with no tobacco and products that imitate smoking tobacco: do I use 12.00.00 or a food code?
Yes, 12.00.00. The heading covers the manufacture of tobacco-based products and also their substitutes, so herbal cigarettes and smoking surrogates remain here. An herbal preparation intended to be drunk or eaten as a food would instead follow food-product logic — for example, 10.89.09.
Replaces the following ATECO 2007 code
This 2025 code replaced the code in force until 31 March 2025:
- 12.00.00— Industria del tabacco(corrispondenza diretta)