For some years now, the “folder” in the library containing all of ours bills it has gradually disappeared because more and more users have decided to have an online bill that allows the archiving of all payments made through their personal pages.
Keeping bills is however a good practice in order to avoid unpleasant inconveniences that, from time to time, can still happen such as requesting a payment on an invoice that has already been paid.
But why is it important to keep them and for how long should they be kept?
Why keep them
Like any receipt, the paid bill also represents proof of the effective payment of the provision of services offered by the manager which, in fact, cannot be given only by the bill but requires the payment receipt; it follows that if you are not in possession of the receipt you can be considered in arrears and it is not possible to prove in any case that, possibly, the claim of the manager of the balance of one of our bills, is incorrect as there is no evidence to just please.
Certainly the reserved area on the site helps a lot because it takes into account the history of everything done but it is always good practice to keep bills and payments, even in digital format.
If the payment of household bills takes place via bank domiciliation, it is not necessary to keep the bills or the payment receipts. In fact, through the account statement, it is easy to trace the fulfillment carried out through the bank or postal current account. However, if the account is terminated then it is a good idea to print and keep the statements.
In the event that the payment is made through bank domiciliation, it is not necessary to keep the receipts as it is easy to trace the payments to
through the bank or postal current account statement.
How long
As expected from Civil Code to art. 2934, there are deadlines beyond which the right to exercise a specific action lapses and this principle also applies to payment requests for which they were introduced, with the 2018 budget law and subsequent Resolution no. 97/2018 / R / dell ‘Regulatory Authority for Energy, Networks and Environment (Arera), the time limits within which even the bills are prescribed.
This means that even in the case of unpaid bills, if the balance is not requested within specific terms, the balance claim would no longer be valid.
There are time differences for the different supplies.
As regards the electricity bills the statute of limitations is 2 years but only for bills issued after 1 March 2018; if the date is earlier than the limitation of limitation remains at the 5 years previously provided for by the law.
Also for the gas the terms are 2 years, but the new prescription only applies to bills issued starting from 1 January 2019; therefore, the receding invoices continue to expire after 5 years.
Finally, for the bills ofwater the 2-year deadlines entered only starting from January 1, 2020; therefore, for everything that has been issued before, the terms remain at 60 months.
Last detail: the electricity bill also includes the Rai license fee and therefore, while the terms of 2 years remain for the electricity supply, it is useful to keep them for ten years precisely to certify the payment of the Rai fee.
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