Milano: Tari, the Municipality introduces discount for young people.

Discounted fare for young people. It is the main innovation planned for the waste tax that the towns and citizens of Milano they will be called upon to pay this year.

The resolution that sets the 2024 tariffs, to be voted on in the City Council, introduces for the first time a reduction of 25% on the variable part of the local tax for all taxpayers aged no more than 30 years residing or domiciled in the city.

The discount extends the Tari concessions provided so far by the Municipality of Milano in support of some categories of citizens, such as the 25% reduction for large families (four or more members), 15% for those over 75 and 10% for single mothers and fathers, in force since 2019.

Who gets the benefit

The measure introduced for the first time this year concerns students, young couples and young workers.

Designed as part of the 2024 Budget measures to support citizens who are particularly penalized by the high cost of living, the incentive is a sign of attention to those who decide to study or start a life or work project in the city.
To obtain the reduction it is not necessary to submit a request to the Administration, which will automatically apply the discount to taxpayers with the requirements set out in the resolution: the accommodation must have a surface area of ​​no more than 100 square meters and, if the young owner lives there with other people , even cohabitants must have an age not exceeding 30 years.

The new 2024 deadlines

The relief is not the only novelty regarding the waste tax Milano.

The deadlines for payments and the times and methods for sending payment notices will also change this year. The Milanese will receive two notices: the first between the end of May and the beginning of June, containing the first installment to be paid by 10 July; the second notice, expected between October and November, will contain the second installment to be paid by the end of the year.
The Municipality has implemented a provision by Arera, the Regulatory Authority for Energy, Networks and the Environment, the body that at a national level carries out regulatory and control functions in the field of urban waste, which requires that Municipalities guarantee citizens at least two payment installments with a six-monthly deadline.

It is a provision that aims to help taxpayers, in the context of greater difficulties linked to inflation, by easing year-end payments.
The possibility of paying the fee in a single payment remains unchanged, chosen in recent years by approximately 80% of Milanese taxpayers. Those who prefer this method will simply have to ignore the first notice and wait for the second which will be sent at the end of the year with the total amount due.

The digital transition

This year almost two-thirds of over 700 thousand Milanese taxpayers they will receive the waste tax slips in digital format. After its debut in 2018, the Tari payment notice via email, both by ordinary mail and by certified email, has so far recorded progressively growing numbers, going from 70 thousand mailings in the pre-Covid years to 125 thousand in 2022 up to 200 thousand last year year, when the Municipality saved as many envelopes and around one million sheets of paper, as well as around 200 thousand euros in printing, enveloping and postal costs.
On the basis of these data, this year the Administration takes a decisive step towards digitalisation, increasing the share of notices to be sent via email from 28% to 61%.

Over 442 thousand citizens they will receive an invitation to their Certified Email or ordinary email address to consult the Citizen's File - now used by 1,3 million registered users - from where they can view their Tari slip and proceed with payment. Approximately 280 thousand taxpayers without digital delivery will continue to receive the notice in paper form in their mailbox.