The cost of TARI is rising again in many Italian cities this year. With the influence of operators, the waste tariff increased especially in Rome (almost 3%), Florence (+3.2% for citizens and businesses), Padua (+3.3% on average), Ancona and Perugia (approximately +7%). But not only that: There is a similar situation in other centers of our country, even in the smallest municipalities, and citizens will receive a flurry of payment notifications in the coming weeks. Thanks to the extension given by the Meloni government by amending the super bonus decree, municipalities have until June 30 to decide on the 2024 TARI.
The waste levy (Tari), introduced in 2014, is a tax intended to finance the costs associated with the waste collection and disposal service and is payable by anyone who owns or owns a facility or non-exposed area of any capacity likely to produce the same waste. In recent years, price increases have reached serious levels: things will not get better in 2024.
Where Tari will increase the most in 2024
The main reasons for tariff increases? According to experts, there are at least three: inflation, energy prices and the direct or indirect consequences of ongoing wars. While preparing tariffs for the current year, the energy, grid and environment regulatory authority (Arera) has asked cities to foresee an increase in bill costs in order to accelerate the recovery of inflation, which has marked the last few years. This has resulted in increased fixed costs for municipal waste collection companies, such as truck fuel.
In Palermo, the municipality recently approved price increases of 6% on average. In Verona, costs increased by an average of 5.6%. Naples, on the other hand, has not yet recovered from the blow in 2023: The waste tariff here increased by 13% for household users and over 20% for shops last year. In Rome, Roberto Gualtieri’s council declared that the burden on citizens should be 14%, given that Tari is used entirely to finance the waste collection and street cleaning service contract. To prevent this increase, the administration relied on funds from the fight against tax evasion. “With this plan, we will reduce the increase by 80 percent and eliminate it next year,” the mayor said.
Milan, where the cost of the waste tax to families has been falling for years, is one of the few cities to act against this trend. But in Verona the increases could have been higher than 7%; It was decided to use the income from tourism tax to control these. In practice, tourists will pay a portion of residents’ tari. In Genoa, the aim is to freeze the 6.8% increase announced by Amiu, the company that manages the municipal waste cycle. Genoa is one of the cities with the most expensive TARI, with average spending exceeding 490 euros per family per year.
Waste management and milestone with Tarip
According to Uil, the cost of Tari has increased by around 7 percent in the last 5 years. In absolute values - Uil confederal secretary Ivana Veronese explained – Italian families paid an average of 325 euros in 2022 for the waste tariff; this figure was 313 euros in 2021 and 301 euros paid in 2018. Calculated Cittadinanzattiva only in 2023: On the other hand, the cost of waste tax in Italy reached an average of 320 euros per family, an increase of 2 percent compared to 2022. Arera stated that the increases for this year could reach a maximum of 13 percent. %.
Despite investments linked to the National Resilience Recovery Plan (Pnrr), waste management remains a weak point, as evidenced by impending increases ahead of the impact of inflation. Tari is used to pay for a service that is inevitably more expensive where it is less effective and efficient, i.e. in cities where the integrated waste cycle has not yet been completed.
For a possible change, we are now focusing on “Tarip”, which is not yet very common, especially in the south. It is a “Punctual Tari” consisting of a fixed quota and a variable quota calculated according to the surface area of the property, designed to reward the virtuous behavior of citizens who correctly separate recyclable materials and reduce non-recyclable waste to 100 percent. minimum.
Source: Today IT
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