"Tevera Nera"

It's for keeping the Tiber valley clean and, I am told by the guy I bought from, that it is €14 or so.  (He wants me to reimburse him!)Maybe others know more - ?Dominic

I cross the river every day and lately it smells like a dead dog.Mark

 According to this article:www.ternimania.it/2008/11/tassa-tevere-nera-una-tassa-ingiusta.htmlit's a tax that only residents in Terni Province have to pay. This is causing a debate wether residents of Perugia should pay it too - giving the fact that Tevere crosses Perugia territory as well.

Don't get me started on this one! According to my commercialista it is just a set up to pay the Committee a per diem when they sit in meetings. In theory, the tax is to keep the valley, where the Tiber and the Nera rivers meet, clean and organised (???...). I have a house in Perugia province and have been billed from time to time (there was a hiatus from 2005 to 2008 while they explored the legality of the tax) - the tax is about €10 for my 22,000 sq. m. of land and the fixed "administration costs" are about €10. You can see why my commercialista is sceptical. Last year they even tried to make us pay double by billing both my husband and myself separately for the same land. We sent a registered letter telling them to go hang - we only paid the one bill with a clear statement on the pay-in slip that this covered both bills. We didn't get a reply BUT in August we got a single bill in both our names! It's not the money - €20 is peanuts compared to our imaginative electricity bills - IT IS THE PRINCIPLE.