According to Alderman for Finance Peter Hanke (also SPÖ), the increase in Vienna’s sewage, waste and water tariffs for 2023, which was proposed by the Viennese Mayor Michael Ludwig (SPÖ), has not yet been determined! Hanke announced that a political decision would not be made until the second half of August. They first want to wait for the value of the consumer price index.
“We are waiting for the official statistical value, which will be determined in the second half of August and then a political decision will be made,” Hanke said on Tuesday evening in the ORF program “Wien Today”.
Inflation pushes consumer price index up
According to the Vienna Valorisation Act, the rates are automatically increased if the consumer price index has increased by more than three percent since the last increase. This will be the case given the high inflation. The reimbursements had also been valorised for this year. According to the municipality, a three-person household has since had to pay 2.45 euros per month more for the associated services.
Criticism of Ludwig – also from our own ranks
The city of Vienna would have the option to suspend the law and waive the valuation of the fees. However, Ludwig had already indicated in mid-July that he was not thinking about suspending the law for next year. “I don’t see that at the moment,” explains Ludwig, “because there is also a need in the respective companies to cover personnel costs or to make investments to take steps in the field of renewable energy to develop for free from dependence on gas”.
For this, the city manager of Vienna should have heard heavy criticism, especially from the ÖVP and FPÖ, also because the SPÖ demands a price ceiling at the federal level. Referring to Hanke’s current statements, ÖVP chairman of the state party Karl Mahrer said: These would now contain sounds “until now unused and which raise the hope that the Viennese SPÖ may come too late, but that reason will prevail.” “.
Source: Krone
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