Do you give food to the poor? You will receive one discount on the waste tax. It provides for the change to the regulation of the Tari that was approved in recent days by the municipal administration of Pont-Saint-Martin, municipality of Valle d'Aosta.

A nice idea

It was the deputy mayor Fabio Badery, councilor with responsibility for social policies, to present the proposal, which then is nothing more than a national standard which provides for the application of a 'rate reduction coefficient' for commercial and production activities who produce or distribute food and "that for free give, directly or indirectly, such food goods to the needy and to people in greater need or to animal feed". And that therefore, at the same time, they also reduce waste of food.

In order to receive a refund (which may vary depending on the amount of food donated to the charity), the activities will have to donate for at least twice, to associations that deal with people in need or animals in difficulty, more than 50 kilos of food and submit, by 30 April of the following year, a simple card request, with the attestation, filled in by the donor bodies, indicating the quantity of food given as gifts.

The Municipality will apply the reduction of the waste tax (about 20%) or reimbursement directly to the donor's current account. A truly linear and fast procedure. «The limits are deliberately reduced and the particularly streamlined bureaucratic part to allow access to this recognition to all the activities concerned, "explains the municipal administration. «Even those of small size and therefore less structured.