Monza: unsustainable taxes, the future of the Ronin gym at risk – Chronicle

Monza, 23 November 2020 – «Dear Mayor, if you really want to help the traders and the gyms in Monza this year you should have lower the waste tax by 45%. We were closed for at least five and a half months, we don’t even know if and how we will reopen in December. I consider an injustice to receive from the Municipality a discounted waste tax of only 15% compared to 2019 “. It’s tough vent from Fabio Contento who manages the Ronin gym in via Savonarola. A history of sport and champions “made in Monza” that has lasted for 49 years, but on whose future Contento has doubts. In recent days, he expressed concerns and regrets with a long post on Facebook addressed directly to the mayor Dario Allevi, precisely regarding the discount considered derisory of the waste tax. “This year we were closed for five months and two weeks, in which there was no waste generation. Also in August we were closed almost the whole month. I believe that 15% less of a tax is too little compared to almost 50% of not using a service ».

Happy he is very worried. However, the recovery in September did not fill the gap severe loss due to the first lockdown, and this second closure knocked the gym down again. “The inscriptions they are sensibly decreased, but rent, electricity and heating remain the same“. Contento does not want to raise political fuss: his is the voice of an entrepreneur from Monza who, in addition to having to deal with a year to forget between closures, investments to make the gym safe, and lower income, now has to pay the tax of a service that in 2020 used little or nothing. “Mine is a desperate cry and I hope that the Municipality can do something. I have never believed much in the “refreshments” of the state, but in the administration of my city I have always trusted, and it is here that I had to collect the biggest disappointment ».

The support shown by his followers is great: many are at his side recalling the great value of sport as an educational means, underlining the social role that the Ronin gym has played in almost half a century of activity in Monza.