It is once again a topic of protest a Giugliano the question of driveways. The arrival in these days of payment requests for the year 2023 home to numerous taxpayers has ensured that the topic once again returns to the center of political, but above all citizen, discussion. After the six-month suspension announced by mayor Nicola Pirozzi last December, now Municipia, the company that was responsible for tax collection, is sending new assessments that follow those of last year.
The tax office has fallen back into chaos. Several citizens are going to the headquarters in via Palumbo to ask for explanations, especially because they are receiving the investigations there are also many for 2023 who should instead be exempt from the payment of the fee as they live on private streets or because their home has a level driveway. The chaos, however, is also exacerbated by the fact that now the tax collection company is no longer the Municipality due to the expiry of the contract but Publiservizi. And this created the first short circuit.
At the time of the suspension five months ago, the previous company created a certified email to which the self-protection form could be sent for all those who believed they should not be subject to the tax. Now that that company is no longer there, it is not clear what happened to the emails sent in recent months. Meanwhile, a new module has also been produced Publiservizi in the event that the citizen believes that he does not have to pay for the driveway because his home does not meet the requirements to be subject to the fee. In this case the form must be delivered to the office in via Palumbo or sent to a certified email address indicated on the form or by post.
According to the council minority, meanwhile, not only the payment requests for 2023 but also those for 2020 are arriving in citizens’ mailboxes “complete with 30% penalties” as they say in a note. «In a press conference – write the opposition councilors – the mayor with great fanfare had reassured the city by saying that there was nothing to worry about and that there would be a suspension of at least 6 months. In fact, less than 5 months later, a new wave of payment slips has invaded the homes of our fellow citizens who, forced to wander between the old and the new dealer, are unable to obtain any information, especially regarding the self-defense revocation requests presented last year. Now that they put their hands in their pockets Giugliano people not only are there no people responsible – thunder the exponents at the meeting – but neither catwalks nor press conferences can be seen. No one to show their face.”
There are also many on social media who are calling for clarity on the case: «If a citizen has already appealed and had the tax canceled the other time because he is not the owner of the driveway and has nothing to do with it – asks Vincenzo -, how come does the tax arrive for the umpteenth time to the same person? Are they making fun of us?”. “In the end – Mario echoes – the poor honest dejected taxpayer will pay the requested sum”.
The problem is that after the census there was no serious verification of the real taxpayers who should be taxed but notices were sent to all those registered, without distinction. Therefore, if in December with the mayor’s announcement of the suspension the case seemed to have been put in a drawer, the investigations of recent days have meant that many people from Giugliano have found themselves picking up the package relating to access to public roads in their own area. home.
