A fuss that risks having enormous consequences and also costing those Municipalities dearly that would have miscalculated the Tari, inflating citizens' bills for years and years, even reaching double the amount of the waste tax.
A macroscopic error highlighted today, Friday 10 November, by the undersecretary for the economy Pier Carlo Baretta, at the request of a M5S deputy, during a question time in the Chamber.
What happened? Let's go in order. The Tari consists of a fixed quota, relating to the size of the house, and a variable quota, depending on the number of inhabitants of the building. And it is precisely on this second part that the error occurred. The variable quota, instead of being calculated only once on the whole of the house, has been multiplied over and over again based on the number of appliances, i.e. parking spaces, cellars, attics, garages, etc., as if the very existence of these appliances affected the amount of garbage produced by the family.
To better clarify the issue, let's use the same example used in the Chamber during the question time and reported by Republic: for an apartment in which a family of 4 lives, with a total surface area of 150 m100, of which 30 of the house, 20 of the garage and XNUMX of the cellar, the variable part of the tariff relating to garage and cellar (as specified in point 4.2 of attachment 1 to Presidential Decree no. 158/99) "must be calculated only once, considering the entire surface area of the user made up of both the residential part and the appurtenances located in the same municipality ”. Therefore, the amount to be paid will be obtained by adding up: all the fixed shares of the house, garage and cellar respectively, to which the amount of the variable share will be added once, and only once.
As Baretta explains, the law in fact establishes that “cellars, garages or other similar storage places are considered domestic utilities run by an occupant, if a natural person without residential utilities in the municipality. In the absence of this condition, the same places are considered non-domestic users".
The miscalculation would have been committed by quite a few Municipalities, among which they stand out Milan, Genoa, Ancona, Naples, Catanzaro and Cagliari.
As it stands to reason, consumer groups are already on a war footing bent on request huge reimbursements from the Municipalities in relation to undue disbursements in the last few years.
The Citizen Defense Movement has already launched the "Sos Tari" campaign to request the return of sums paid unjustifiably. Anyone who wants to join will have to send an email to the nearest local office and wait for the association to check the payment notices and send the relative reimbursement requests.
Alternatively each taxpayer can decide to act alone. In this case various steps will have to be overcome: first the assessment notice must be challenged and then, within 60 days of notification of the notice, an appeal must be filed with the provincial tax commission.
In the event that the collection of the Tari is carried out by an entity other than the municipality, the refund request must be addressed to the third-party company.
It should also be noted that, shortly, the Ministry of the Economy will issue a ministerial circular cclarifying the procedure to be followed to request any refunds to which taxpayers who are victims of the error will be entitled.
