Italian Electric Bill

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TechTMW · #1 Unread post by **TechTMW** » Mon May 02, 2005 9:25 pm

Italian electric bills come Bimonthly ... and there is only one way to pay the bill - You have to go to the post office and pay cash. You can't mail in a payment, can't use a credit card, and you certainly can't pay online. Oh yah, most months they are too lazy to send out someone to read your meter, so they "estimate" electric usage based on past usage. So, if they etimate low, you have to watch your meter, because they will slam you with a e.1000 bill without hesitation is they find you consumed more than they estimated.

That being said, The bill itself is a mixture of hilarity and insanity.

Here is my actual electric bill for march/april (estimated ... no one official has looked at the meter this time around)

Base Price
e.7.42 (march)
e.7.42 (april)

Base Taxes
e.74.37

Generating Costs (The actual price of the electricity)
e.64.99

Tarriff components A, UC, MT (???)
e.13.96

Local Imposts
e.27.34

Total e.180.66
IVA 10%e.19.55
Total Bill e.215.05

Soooo. By my calculation that's 79.83 for the actual electricity.

The remaining 135.22 is TAXES.

Do you Brits have it this bad !!?!?!?!

CentralOzzy · Mon May 02, 2005 10:01 pm

Man that is a bit rich....that's less fuel money for you & your bike eh?

Silly Eye-Ties!

Quella è vita!

Scott58 · #3 Unread post by **Scott58** » Tue May 03, 2005 3:36 am

Boy, that brought back some memories. Do they still use mainly "bumbolas" (sp?) in the stoves?

#4 Unread post by **9000white** » Tue May 03, 2005 4:21 am

my phone bill is 9 pages long.this is just basic service no add ons.no way to interpret it.

TechTMW · #5 Unread post by **TechTMW** » Tue May 03, 2005 10:13 am

Scott58 wrote:Boy, that brought back some memories. Do they still use mainly "bumbolas" (sp?) in the stoves?

Hahaha yes! For those who don't know, a Bombola is a propane tank. They use them for their dryers (those that don't hang their laundry out) they use them for the stoves, the cars and scooters (propane injection)

Those of us who have big houses use a "Bombolone" "Big Bombola" which holds 1000 liters of propane for the stove, and hot water.

oldnslo · #6 Unread post by **oldnslo** » Tue May 03, 2005 10:38 am

There must be a lively market in recycling old propane tanks over there.
There are rumors that gas will, in the not too distant future, be handled much like oil, with a cartel or two of gas producing countries controlling output, and thereby, prices.

Scott58 · #7 Unread post by **Scott58** » Wed May 04, 2005 4:22 am

I lived in aviano from 1976-79. I loved it over there and would have stayed in the service had they allowed me to stay there. I worked in a mo-ped shop in Budioa for about 18 months part time and loved it. It was cool to cruise up to the agip station and dial in the percentage of 2-stroke mix you wanted at the pumps. Not many radios in the cars due to radio tax, but everyone had a tape deck. Italy was where i really learned to ride well and I have some fond memories of the mountain and my Fantic dirt bike and trips to rome and san marino on my KZ-900. I envy you right now dude!

barmy_carmy · Wed May 04, 2005 6:14 am

Techbmw, That is totally ridiculous. We used to pay 17.5% but now we pay 5% tax on electric and gas. But Tax on fuel and cars etc are totally ridiculous. We pay tax on everything we buy here in the UK.

MASHBY · #9 Unread post by **MASHBY** » Wed May 04, 2005 6:41 am

barmy_carmy wrote:Techbmw, That is totally ridiculous. We used to pay 17.5% but now we pay 5% tax on electric and gas. But Tax on fuel and cars etc are totally ridiculous. We pay tax on everything we buy here in the UK.

Thats why I left

barmy_carmy · Wed May 04, 2005 10:19 pm

dont blame you Mashby, When I win the lottery, I'd leave too.