Exemption or reduction from the stormwater fee
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Request a revision (ePorvoo, available in Finnish and Swedish)
Submit a customer inquiry regarding the stormwater fee: apply for an exemption or reduction, or report changes to your billing information.
Do you want to request a revision of the stormwater fee?
How to proceed:
- You can request a revision within 14 days of receiving the invoice by submitting a claim via the ePorvoo service.
- Pay the invoice by the due date. Any refund will be issued later.
- The same form can also be used to update your billing information.
- Before submitting a claim, review the conditions for granting an exemption or a reduction on this page.
Reduction of the stormwater fee
You may be granted a reduction under the following conditions. A reduction can only be granted on one basis at a time:
- A method for managing stormwater is implemented on the property to even out or handle stormwater that build up on the property.
- A system that is entitled to a reduction in the stormwater fee must be at least 50% better than required by the detailed plan, the city’s instructions on stormwater management or building regulations.
- For example, if the detention order in the city’s detailed plan is 1 m3/100m2 of impervious surface, the solution for relief must be at least 1,5 m3/100m2 of impervious surface.
- A 30% reduction can only be granted for systems for which plans have been submitted to the building inspection authority.
- Just leading the stormwaters to a stormwater sewer, for example, which is mandatory in the property’s catchment area, to a rock pocket or to an open ditch is not considered as reducing, equalising or treating stormwaters generated at the property.
- A system that is entitled to a reduction in the stormwater fee must be at least 50% better than required by the detailed plan, the city’s instructions on stormwater management or building regulations.
- For properties zoned for industrial or commercial use, at least 50% of the area is covered by vegetation.
The applicant must provide the necessary report and documents to obtain the relief based on the property’s stormwater management.
Exemption from the stormwater fee
You may be granted an exemption under the following conditions:
The property is used for public benefit purposes by an association or foundation for more than 50% of the time or covers more than 50% of the total floor area.
- The use of the property for the common good is assessed on a case-by-case basis, and the degree of common good is defined in accordance with section 22 of the Income Tax Act.
- The applicant must provide the necessary report and documents to obtain the exemption based on the property’s use for the common good.
- Before applying review the criteria for public benefit status on the vero.fi website.