The amount of payments for utility services from next year may increase by 2 percentage points. At least, with this proposal, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. The agency is concerned that an increase in VAT from 18% to 20% could lead resource suppliers to losses if the fee for their services remains the same. Therefore, it proposes to take such preventive measures. The increase in the cost of payment receipts will not lead to additional enrichment of utility companies, the general director of the association "Housing and Communal Services and Urban Environment" Alexei Makrushin. "The cost of the services themselves will not change. Only the amount of tax that is included in the payment will be changed. Thus, the amount of payment for consumers will grow by 2 percentage points. But at the same time, organizations will not earn a ruble additionally, "he said in an interview with Izvestia,.

In fact, the main question is how much the average annual inflation will accelerate, because the revision of utility tariffs depends on it, says the chairman of the Duma committee on housing construction and housing and communal services Galina Khovanskaya. "If there will be 2%, then the growth (utility tariffs) will not be higher than the inflation rate," she said on the air of the NSC. "This is an inevitable process". The new VAT rate will begin to operate in the Russian Federation from January 1, 2019, recalls URA. EN. Tariffs are traditionally raised in the middle of summer. The last rise in price since July 1, 2018. was 4% on average in Russia.