Martina Zanchi
There was no peace for the Romans battling the disease Dance. After the wave assessment notification which in recent weeks has caused chaos, and residents are ready to challenge eight thousand bulletins Of the 72 thousand sent by the company, Campidoglio is now preparing regulatory changes again, with different deadlines and new balances at the end of the year.
The changes were illustrated at the Budget, Environment and Roma Capitale commissions before being submitted to the DPR, and the first innovation that attracted attention wasinstallment increase: starting next year, it will actually be so four instead of three, which expire on February 28, May 31, August 31 and November 30 (only for 2026 the first will be postponed to March 31). However, the most important thing is that the mechanism underlying the collection has changed, namely deposits and balances, so that after December 1 residents can receive one fifth. balance bill previous payment.
Yet another byzantinism was caused – as budget council member Silvia Scozzese explained – due to the need to adapt Capitoline regulations to the new regulations, which pushed the deadline for approving the economic and financial plans of companies, in this case Ama, to June. Therefore, in reality, during the current year the Dance will be paid at the applicable rate but then a certain amount can be requested as an adjustment, taking into account the new rate.
All this – said the councilor – will avoid “cash surprises” for Ama and also for the Municipality. Unfortunately, less than two years ago, with another change in regulations, the installments changed from two to three. So it is not surprising that between one change and another some citizens can get confused and “miss” some payments, seeing their bills delivered sooner or later.
«A labyrinth of regulations regarding waste taxes has been created, consisting of constant changes, rethinking, deadlines that change over time, rewritten regulations and constant corrections. The result? Total chaos – attacking the leader of the Capitoline League group, Fabrizio Santori, who he said – it was a triumph of recklessness over good administration”.
Additionally, there are rare cases when the fault lies not with the taxpayer, but with the public administration, as seems to have happened in recent weeks. It seems, in fact, that the Capitol has requested a review of all the “folders” of the sender group in which there may be database misalignments, causing macroscopic errors that citizens will now be forced to defend themselves against, if not before a judge sooner or later. The first confirmation came to the commission from the director of Tax Revenue and Collection, Nicola Mattera, who announced ongoing efforts to overturn the erroneous assessment without citizens having to do anything.
