The court supported the decrease in the water tariff in Irkutsk

The Irkutsk Regional Court confirmed the position of the regional tariff service that reduced the rise in price of water in Irkutsk from 19.5 to 8.5%. The Irkutsk administration intends to challenge the decision, and Vodokanal announced the upcoming bankruptcy.

The court considered that the tariff service had the authority to cancel the assigned tariff. “The court took into account that, according to the results of the consideration and analysis of the tariff materials, the economically unreasonable expenses included in the Irkutsk administration in the Irkutsk administration for the Irkutsk MUP Vodokanal,” the regional authorities said.

Earlier, Governor Sergei Levchenko already explained that the tariff for cold water supply for the inhabitants of Irkutsk also included the salary of the director of the Municipal Unitary Enterprise Vodokanal, which monthly exceeded 500 thousand rubles, and the salary of the chief engineer - above 350 thousand rubles a month. The chief accountant of the MUP received more than 200 thousand rubles, and the average salary of the administrative and managerial apparatus declared by the MUE Vodokanal for 2016 exceeded 70 thousand rubles a month, which almost doubled the indicators of other organizations that carry out similar activities in comparable conditions.

The city hall of Irkutsk on April 20 announced the intention to appeal the decision of the regional court in the Supreme Court. “When making a decision, the court did not take into account the results of an independent examination appointed by the court itself and conducted by the Economic Department of Moscow State University. Lomonosov. Experts recognized the economic unreasonableness of tariffs established by the regional service, ”explained the chairman of the Committee on Budget Policy and Finance of the Irkutsk Administration Alfiya Valiulina (quote according to the press service of the administration).

According to the director of MUP Vodokanal, Sergey Pykhtin, an artificial decrease in the tariff leads to the fact that the company is building up debts and cannot fully develop.

“The underestimated tariffs established by the regional service can lead one of the life-supporting enterprises of the city to bankruptcy, and this will have irreversible consequences for the entire housing and communal industry of the city,” said Sergey Pykhin.

The head of the enterprise added that the tariff proposed by the city authorities is one of the lowest in Russia.