The 30% discount on Italian traffic fines: how and when you pay less
Enter the date the fine reached you: the calculator gives the last day for the 30% discount and the last day to pay the minimum, with the amounts for your offence.
The 30% discount on Italian traffic fines comes from article 202 of the Highway Code: if you pay within 5 days of being stopped and charged on the spot, or of being served with the verbale (the fine notice), you pay the minimum penalty less 30%. From the sixth day up to day 60 the full minimum is due; after that, without an appeal, half the maximum. The discount covers the penalty only: the investigation and service costs printed on the fine are paid in full. It does not apply when the offence carries a licence suspension or vehicle confiscation, so it is excluded for speeding more than 40 km/h over, for using a phone at the wheel and for drink-driving. Examples for 2026: 10 to 40 km/h over drops from €173 to €121.10, a seat belt from €83 to €58.10, breaking a local parking rule from €42 to €29.40. The days count from the day after service: a fine received on 10 March can be paid at the reduced rate until the 15th. Paying gives up any appeal.
30% discount: €121.10 until
22 October 2026
passed
| Service within 90 days | on time (3 days) |
| €121.10 (−30%) until | 22 October 2026 · passed |
| €173 until | 16 December 2026 · in 53 days |
| Appeal to the prefetto by | 16 December 2026 · in 53 days |
| Appeal to the giudice di pace by | 16 November 2026 · in 23 days |
| After day 60 with no payment or appeal | €347 + costs |
Calendar days counted from the day after service. The tool does not move deadlines that fall on a public holiday: for the giudice di pace the term runs to the next working day (art. 155 of the civil procedure code); for payment, do not wait for the last day.
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What article 202 says
Article 202, paragraph 1 allows the offender to pay, within 60 days of being charged or served, “a sum equal to the minimum set by each rule”. The second sentence adds: “That sum is reduced by 30 per cent if payment is made within five days”. The discount is worked out on the minimum, never the maximum, and on any surcharge already applied: for running a red light at night, when article 195 raises the penalty by a third, the minimum becomes €222.67 and the reduced sum €155.87.
Investigation and service costs stay outside the discount: article 201, paragraph 4, puts them on whoever has to pay, and they are not part of the sum that is reduced.
What I pay within 5 days
Within 5 days
€121.10
| Saving | €51.90 |
| From day 6 to day 60 | €173 |
Plus the service costs printed on the fine, which are not reduced.
When there is no discount
The same article rules out the reduction for offences that carry a licence suspension or vehicle confiscation. Paragraph 3 also bars the reduced payment for drivers who did not stop when told to or refused to show their licence and registration document, and paragraph 3-bis lists other offences for which the fine goes straight to the prefetto. In the table, “not allowed” marks the cases where the Code provides a suspension: the minimum is due within 60 days.
| Offence | Minimum | Within 5 days |
|---|---|---|
| Speeding: up to 10 km/h over | €42 | €29.40 |
| Speeding: over 10, up to 40 | €173 | €121.10 |
| Speeding: over 40, up to 60 | €543 | not allowed |
| Speeding: over 60 km/h | €845 | not allowed |
| Phone in hand while driving | €250 | not allowed |
| Seat belt not worn | €83 | €58.10 |
| Running a red light | €167 | €116.90 |
| Ignoring a road sign | €42 | €29.40 |
| Parking against a local rule | €42 | €29.40 |
| Driveway or double-parking | €42 | €29.40 |
| Pavement, crossing, cycle lane | €87 | €60.90 |
| Bus stop or reserved lane | €165 | €115.50 |
| Disabled bay | €330 | €231 |
| Entering a ZTL or pedestrian zone | €83 | €58.10 |
| Alcohol 0.5 to 0.8 g/l | €543 | not allowed |
For mopeds and two-wheeled motorcycles some parking offences have lower amounts; the traffic fines calculator shows them when you pick the vehicle. A second offence of 10 to 40 km/h over within a year in a built-up area carries a suspension, and the discount goes with it: the minimum is €220.
How the 5 days are counted
The period runs from the moment you are charged, if an officer stopped you and handed you the fine, or from service, if it arrives by post or certified e-mail. The day of service does not count: with service on 10 March 2026 the discount runs until 15 March 2026 and the minimum until 9 May 2026. For payments other than cash or a post office slip, payment is effective if the credit arrives within two days of the deadline, as the interpretation rule printed under article 202 explains. The calculator works in calendar days: if the deadline falls on a public holiday, check the instructions on the fine. Visitors paying from abroad should allow for slower international transfers.
How many days I have left
30% discount
2 days
| Minimum | 57 days |
| Appeal to the prefetto | 57 days |
| Appeal to the giudice di pace | 27 days |
Paying or appealing
Paying, even with the discount, closes the matter: article 203 allows an appeal only if the reduced payment has not been made. If you think the fine is wrong, decide before paying and read the appeal page: if the prefetto rejects an appeal, at least twice the minimum is due. If you neither pay nor appeal within 60 days, the fine becomes enforceable for half the maximum, as the unpaid fine page explains. Amounts in force in 2026; texts read on Normattiva on 24 October 2026.