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TechBMW wrote: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 !!?!?!?!