Gregorio F. has a small house. Twenty-six square meters, via S. Igino Papa, a kind of equipment shed on the field “where we played in the summer”, says son Gregorio. In 1984, the property was definitively expropriated (it had already been expropriated in 1977 but the expropriation became definitive following an appeal in 1984) to build the building of the then Iacp council, the autonomous Institute of Social Housing, now renamed Ater. All the houses are today, they are definitely not like tool sheds. And Ama, a week ago, asked Gregorio, who at that time had lived for 86 years, 41 of which no longer owned the small house, to pay waste tax from 2019 to 2024 of 968 euros considering that according to Ama, 4 people live on 26 square meters of land.
Gregorio’s case might be considered an extreme case. But in fact, for days, tens of thousands of families have received warnings about this Dance not paid for properties that do not exist or for which waste tax is paid but Ama has not stated this: accumulation problems, for example, for properties built in the 1960s.
Like Manuela’s, entered via Anicio Gallo. When this building was built in 1967, there was only Via Anicio Gallo. All houses built in stages have that address. Then, little by little, new streets were given names and Manuela’s home address was changed. However, Ama remained stubborn and sent him the Tari folder relating to the old address despite the fact that the taxes had been paid by her husband at the new address.
Another case was highlighted on Twitter by journalist and radio host Giancarlo Loquenzi.
«UNARMED CITIZENS»
“My mother, who recently turned 93, has received Ama’s documents disputing missed TARI payments from 2019 to 2024. It’s a shame that the apartment was sold in 1983. The problem is that you don’t have the resources to contest it. The self-defense procedure does not interfere with the 60 days after forced collection is triggered and the right to appeal to court is lost. Appealing immediately to a lawyer costs a lot of money if the request is clearly unfounded. Ama herself does not answer the phone and only accepts appointment in person or online, but on the website for days the answer was no availability. According to council member Sabrina Alfonsi and mayor Roberto Gualtieri, what will they do in the face of the inconvenience created by companies that do not update cadastral data and leave citizens alone and disarm them?”.
This issue clearly also reappears in Julius Caesar’s Room. There are 100 thousand files that Ama sent to Rome in the last few weeks. And there are many cases of crazy folders.
CONTROVERSY
Fratelli d’Italia loudly called for the mayor’s intervention: «Citizens were forced – said group leader Giovanni Quarzo; Federico Rocca, a member of the city council, and Piergiorgio Benvenuti, head of the Environment and Waste Department of FdI Rome – will apply for self-defense or appeal, but the waiting time to get an appointment at Ama stretches until January 2026, well beyond the deadline set by law. Clearly something is not working and immediate intervention is needed. Top management of the company. the competent mayor and councilors must immediately intervene to stop this umpteenth detrimental action that is harming Roma, which has already been punished enough for the inefficiency of the AMA”. «The main problem – says Laura Corrotti, member of the regional council (FdI) and president of the Pisana Waste Commission – is that the Ama does not update the cadastral data, a problem known for some time but never resolved, which continues to recur cyclically. To explain these estimates and the disorganized management, I will create a Waste Commission that will invite representatives of Roma Capitale and the Ama leaders.”
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