ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Monday told an expansion of up to Rs2.97 per unit in power rates for ex-Wapda dispersion organizations under the quarterly levy change (QTA) for one year with impact from October 1, 2021.
As indicated by a request delivered by Nepra, alongside a timetable of duty (SOT), the levy increment incorporates a new additional charge of Rs1.25 per unit for all shoppers, with the exception of homegrown customers, and a quarterly change of Rs1.66 per unit for all purchaser classes. The SOT showed no levy increment for homegrown buyers utilizing around 300 units. Notwithstanding, an increment of Rs1.72 per unit will apply to the purchasers utilizing over 300 units.
The levy increment for any remaining classes — business, general, modern, single-point supply, brief stockpile, private settlements of mechanical units and farming — has been put at Rs2.97 per unit, with the exception of rural tubewells for which increment will be Rs2.66 per unit. The normal extra QTA, along these lines, works out to be Rs1.66 per unit.
This included around 83 paisa for the final quarter of 2019-20 and around 90 paisa for each unit for the first and second quarters of 2020-21 dictated by Nepra on August 6 and a lower QTA change of around 7 paisa for every unit for the second from last quarter of 2020-21.
A Nepra official, in any case, guaranteed that the net duty increment would be only four paisa for every unit and produce Rs4bn in extra income for Discos.
The authority noticed that the prior QTA of Rs1.62 per unit terminated on September 30 and was supplanted by the new QTA of Rs1.66 per unit with impact from October 1 for one more year, thus the extra weight would be four paisa for every unit.
Nonetheless, he yielded the gross tax increment was about Rs1.66 paisa per unit as gross levy ought to have gone somewhere around Rs1.62 per unit on the expiry of the previous QTA, however a higher QTA for one more year would add weight to the shoppers. He said the new QTA was assessed to guarantee about Rs165bn income stream to Discos, other than over Rs25bn in everyday deals duty to the public authority.
The authority said over Rs1.72 per unit QTA ought to have come into power in July this year, yet the public authority had chosen to defer it until October 1 to limit the effect by supplanting the current QTA, which terminated on September 30.
As indicated by Nepra, the national government, through a new statute, has “been enabled to force overcharges for” certain reasons for satisfying monetary commitments in regard of electric force administrations.
“With respect to proposed by the central government for different classes of purchasers, it is to be explained that Nepra has not required any of such extra charges. It is the national government which has the legal ability to do likewise,” the controller’s structure said, adding that any such extra charge was to be considered as an expense to be remembered for the tax dictated by Nepra.
It said the national government had implied the controller that it had exacted overcharges and that Nepra was basically needed to demonstrate overcharges forced by the public authority against the relating sections still up in the air timetable of duty with the end goal of recuperation as it were.
“In this way, classification shrewd extra charges proposed by the central government have likewise been remembered for the immediate arrangement,” the controller said.
The modified levy will stay set up till September 30, 2022.
