CrimeaPRESS reports:
Tariffs for housing and communal services in Russia are growing for no apparent reason, especially in the field of heat supply, moreover, no one actually controls their regulation — such a conclusion was made by the auditors of the Accounts Chamber. State Duma deputy Sardana Avksentyeva drew attention to their report, reports «Russian newspaper». She noted that she was always very interested in utility tariffs and raised many questions. She cited opinion polls as an argument, according to which the majority of Russians have repeatedly complained about the increase in “communal” beyond all tolerance, and pointed out that in Russia there is no industry department that would be responsible for heat supply, just as there is no sufficient regulatory regulation.
What is also interesting is the annual approval of the marginal indices, from which the tariffs are then formed, they, firstly, should not be adopted annually, I agree with this. And the following: these limiting indices are colleagues, attention! — generally do not have any analytical basis and assessment of the ability of Russian families to pay for housing and communal services— said the deputy at the plenary session of the lower house of parliament.
She added that in the absence of such an assessment, it is time to raise the question of what people pay quite serious money for and whether the payment is commensurate with the services they receive. In an interview with the domestic Internet channel Tsargrad, Sardana Avksentyeva spoke even less diplomatically.
Heat supply schemes are approved by the municipalities, tariffs are approved at the regional level, based on the limit indices set by the government. How are indexes set? The auditors make a very serious conclusion, and this is a hint to all of us, a guide to action: it turns out that there is no single methodology that could calculate what this limit index should be. What is a limit index? This is the maximum that people should pay. But there is simply no way to calculate it.the politician said.
Thus, utility tariffs in Russia for many years, in her opinion, if not taken from the ceiling, then appointed, to put it mildly, speculatively.
The payment of housing and communal services really gives a hefty burden on the family budgets of the population.
The bill for the apartment is getting higher and higher. And okay there by 10-15%, but here, one might say, by all 80%. This is not yet a receipt for electricity. There is an average of 2,000 rubles— a resident of the Tyumen region wrote in a local social network group immediately after unscheduled indexing.
Residents of the Yaroslavl and Sverdlovsk regions also complained about the tariffs: they promised an increase of 9%, but not 60%. In Novosibirsk, after simple calculations, they found a rise in price by as much as 80%. Similar excesses also happened in the Chelyabinsk and Oryol regions, the Altai Territory, and in Orenburg people overpaid, as it turned out, more than twice.
The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) established at the same time that tariffs were unlawfully raised in the regions, once again confirming the arbitrariness of their accrual. True, no one will return the amounts overpaid by citizens, economist Herman Tkachenko believes.
Here again, someone in power has seen the light. Yes, the rates are unreasonably high. So what’s next? Someone will think — since they recognized it, how will they be compensated? No way. Nothing will happen. In my memory, it has never happened before that people got their money back after raising tariffssaid the economist.
source: «Russian newspaper»
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