Basile first arrives, TARI and decentralization are immediately dealt with: the deadlines for the waste tax in Messina are postponed

John

By John

First political-administrative act of the new council led by mayor Federico Basile. In the inaugural session of the municipal council, the executive approved two policy resolutions considered strategic for government action in the coming years: the management of local taxation and the strengthening of administrative decentralization. A start that immediately marks the priorities of Basile’s second mandate, called to deal with the most delicate issues for Palazzo Zanca, starting with municipal taxes and the organization of services in the area.

Among the measures adopted, resolution no. stands out. 398, proposed by the deputy mayor and councilor for the budget Laura Castelli, with which the council decided to remodulate the TARI deadlines for 2026. The choice, they explain from Palazzo Zanca, was necessary to allow the approval of the new 2026-2029 financial economic plan, to implement the reimbursement of the 2025 social bonus foreseen by ARERA and also in light of the failure to publish the relevant municipal announcement to exemptions for economic hardship for the current year.

The new payment schedule includes:

31 August 2026: payment of the single installment or the first advance instalment;
30 October 2026: second down payment instalment;
December 30, 2026: final balance.

To calculate the advance payment, the 2025 TARI tariffs will be used, applied at 66% for both domestic and non-domestic users. The decision aims, on the one hand, to guarantee the administration the time necessary to define the new economic-financial framework of the waste service and, on the other, to avoid repercussions on taxpayers in a still interim phase on the tariff plan.