VENEZIA The increase was announced (but not too much), and above all until now it had not yet been seen in the bill. But now, with the last 2024 installment of the Departmentall residents of the province of Venice found it on their waste tax invoice, complete with the balance on the three previous installments this year. An end-of-year stipend, amounting to a few tens of euros per user, which affects all 44 Venetian municipalities, plus the Treviso municipality of Mogliano Veneto, which are part of the “Venice Environment Basin” for the urban waste collection service, also reaching almost 10 percent more than what is due in 2023.
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«Inflation and increase in energy costs with retroactive effect» is explained in the offices, while the invoice currently being distributed and which will be paid in December is accompanied by a letter which, in addition to announcing the adjustment, also reminds us of some “additional tariff components” arranged by Arera, i.e. the national regulatory authority for the sector: “Starting from 1 January 2024, the new UR1 equalization tariff components, worth 0.10 euros per user per year coverage of the management costs of waste accidentally caught and waste voluntarily collected, and UR2, worth 1.50 euros per user per year to cover the benefits recognized for exceptional and calamitous events”. Not exactly clear, but what everyone has already understood is that the environmental hygiene service costs more and more (and a similar blow could also arrive in 2025), also in the face of the continuous increase in separate waste collection which, instead, should reduce waste costs. «The increase is however lower than the increases established by Arera which are +13.7% in 2024 and +8.8% in 2025, due to the strong increases in the price of energy and gas and other raw materials and consumer goods – explain from the Venezia Ambiente Basin -. This increase was partly contained in our Basin, and overall the maximum annual tariff adjustment for most municipalities is equal to 9.59%”. Almost 10% more, therefore, with the sole exception of the Municipality of Venice which decided to allocate 7 million obtained from the tourist tax to limit the increase borne by families to between 4 and 5%.
