The TARI, waste tax is confirmed as one of the heaviest items in the budget of Italian families. In 5 years there have been average increases almost 8% with even peaks of 69%. Record surges for a country with rising inflation. The tax in 2022 recorded increases of 3,7% with peaks close to 90%. Incomprehensible increases for the post-sales service most diverse audience in the country. The Cohesion and Territory Labor Office of the UIL verified the costs of 107 provincial capital cities. 65 revised the tax upwards, generating an average annual cost of 325 euros. The increases also reached 519 euros. It's the level of Pisa, the most expensive city of Italy. The study examined a family of four that occupies a house of 80 m25 and has an ISEE income of XNUMX euros. “It remains intact,” he says Ivan Veronese UIL Confederal Secretary – the issue of efficiency and effectiveness of the service that needs investment in infrastructure inherent to the integrated waste cycle”. Nothing new, because the mayors apply the increases due to the management of the service to the citizens. Upstream, a series of parameters mostly unknown to taxpayers apply. On a general level, the obstinacy with which a part (fortunately a minority) of politics persists against the construction of new plants it is the perverse aspect of a rising cost for millions of families.
The waste tax, safe for the Municipalities
For 2023 on the website of Department of Finance, the new interpretative guidelines have been published to fix the costs associated with the tax. We always talk about average costs, calculated with a statistical regression model (the value of one variable relative to other variables) on a sample of municipalities. The main variables are managerial and contextual. Currently the standard cost of management is 130,45 euros for a ton of wasteyou. This figure applies to a single Municipality or to a group of Municipalities. A figure that paradoxically seems to escape those who do not want waste-to-energy plants or mini-plants that can be used in a specific area. And differentiated waste collection is by no means incompatible with treatment plants that also recover energy. The percentage of collection affects – up or down- on the cost to citizens. In the same way as the distance in km between the Municipality and the plants, the number and type of regional plants, the percentage of urban waste treated and disposed of in the regional plants. For every percentage point of waste disposed of in landfills in the Region, the standard cost is reduced by 0,22 euros per ton. The associated form of management of the service causes an increase of over 5,82 euros per ton. Then, the demographic, morphological and economic context, the average age of the population, the population density, the method of collection, door-to-door or on call, have an impact. A sequence of variables that end up in the municipal tax notification. Mayors rely heavily on receipts - a safe for balance sheets - which in many cases they compensate environmental initiatives urban. Partial good news comes these days from Palermo where the municipal administration has decided on a reduction of almost nine million euros in the TARI, it being understood that the waste is subjected to shredding in a local landfill. Quite isolated news as the majority of the Municipalities go in the opposite direction. Finally, the TARI also includes the provincial environmental tax (TEFA), although both on the municipal and on the provincial side it is necessary insist on the integrated cycle some trash. "Yes, to this end - adds Ivana Veronese - the investments of the Pnrr and the European and national cohesion funds concerning the integrated waste cycle must be accelerated". Delays repaid with taxpayers' pockets.
