How many taxes are being collected on an electricity bill? Important Revelations
How many taxes are being collected on an electricity bill? Important Revelations
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00:00 I have seen TV anchors on TV for the last 48 hours or so
00:06 but the way they are explaining the bill, how much taxes are being imposed,
00:12 how much electricity they are paying, and the various types of taxes
00:17 and where all these are being imposed, they are telling you the whole story.
00:21 Gujranwala is a common city.
00:23 In Gujranwala, we have a total of 212 units of electricity.
00:30 The electricity bill is being imposed on us.
00:32 This is the tax that the village is paying.
00:34 This is the fuel adjustment.
00:37 And this is the electricity that we are paying for.
00:43 This is the income tax.
00:46 This is the general sale tax.
00:49 This is the father tax, which we don't even know about.
00:54 We have been told a very strange thing.
00:58 Our government has not given a name for the tax.
01:01 They have written "more tax".
01:03 Believe me, this is "more tax".
01:06 This has come to everyone.
01:08 This is the general sale tax.
01:10 We don't even know what the IFC charge is.
01:14 The fuel adjustment that has been imposed here, and here again.
01:19 This is the total tax, Rs 48.
01:23 And this is the bill, Rs 1,495.
01:30 You should pay attention.
01:32 I have understood the rest of the tax.
01:35 Please explain to me what "more tax" is.
01:39 They don't even give a name for the tax.
01:41 "More tax", means the place tax.
01:44 They don't even give a name for the tax.
01:46 "More tax", wow.
01:48 This is a very technical issue.
01:50 You saw the taxes on the bill.
01:52 There are around 8, 9, 10 taxes.
01:54 Ali Malik is a great reporter.
01:58 Whenever the prices of electricity and gas increase,
02:01 the breaking news is about him.
02:03 And people say, Ali Malik has come again.
02:05 These days, the breaking news about him
02:08 is very difficult to digest.
02:11 So, Mr. Chaudhary Gulamshahin and Mr. Hasan Ayyub,
02:13 with your permission, I will go to Ali Malik first.
02:17 Sir, this is the tax that has been told to us by the common citizen.
02:21 This is technical.
02:23 How many taxes are being imposed on a common citizen
02:27 on the electricity bill?
02:29 If I get a bill for Rs 100,
02:33 how much is the actual electricity bill and how much are the taxes?
02:37 Thank you very much, Mr. Khawar.
02:39 The common citizen is a victim
02:42 because he has to pay the electricity bill.
02:44 It is easy for him to impose all the taxes.
02:47 First, the electricity bill is imposed.
02:51 If you say Rs 100, then it will be around Rs 55.
02:55 What happens after that?
02:57 The biggest punishment will be fuel price adjustment.
03:00 The fuel price will be said,
03:02 "We had unfortunately kept this fuel price."
03:05 The dollar is getting stronger and the rupee is falling.
03:09 The basic inefficiency will be given different names.
03:14 First, the name of the FPA will be given.
03:16 Then, the name of the FC will be given.
03:19 Then, a quarterly adjustment will be given.
03:22 There will be a quarterly adjustment
03:24 that there will be a capacity payment,
03:26 there will be a loss,
03:28 and different things will be included in the name of operation and maintenance.
03:31 Then, electricity will be imposed.
03:33 When it is imposed quarterly, it is for 4 months or 3 months.
03:36 This is the punishment that the consumers are suffering every 3 months.
03:39 The major chunk of it is the capacity of payments.
03:42 That is, our electricity is made,
03:44 we do not take it, our companies do not take it.
03:46 So, what happens is that the sub-charge is collected from the common man.
03:49 Which is much less.
03:51 That means, you have a client with whom your contract is making electricity.
03:55 Whether you buy it or not, you have to pay him.
03:58 And you don't have to pay him a little.
04:00 I will tell you recently that the adjustment that has just come,
04:05 the capacity payments in it are Rs. 122 billion.
04:08 That means, in 3 months, you have put Rs. 122 billion on the consumers for 3 months.
04:13 Because electricity was available, our electricity companies have not taken it.
04:16 It is the summer season, when the consumers need it the most.
04:20 So, it means that electricity is not being used,
04:23 people's homes are not getting electricity,
04:25 but money is coming out of people's pockets.
04:27 That means, a common man is not using electricity.
04:30 When your electricity company is not taking electricity from the power producer,
04:34 you have not sent it to the common man,
04:36 but we have paid the capacity.
04:38 Because we have already made agreements with them that you have made it.
04:42 In addition, we have to pay the PTV fee.
04:45 Now, the latest, they have a radio fee, that has also been added to it.
04:48 And the punishment in that is that you have taken FPA.
04:51 FPA itself is a tax, but fuel price adjustment.
04:54 You have taken fuel price adjustment, but you have not stopped here.
04:57 You said that you will also pay GST on it.
04:59 What is that percentage?
05:00 So, GST is your 18%.
05:02 Now, you have already taken GST.
05:04 There are more questions, we will ask you that too.
05:07 Now, let's move on to the program.
05:10 Let's ask Mr. Ayub.
05:12 No, he is here with us.
05:14 Mr. Ajuy, you don't let him go.
05:16 I will come to you first.
05:18 Mr. Hasan Ayub, today...
05:20 I had to ask a question.
05:21 Yes, yes, please let me ask you a question.
05:23 I have been seeing your tweets in our program, in various programs.
05:28 You are going, your narrator is often writing about peace.
05:31 So, tell the narrator about some peace in terms of the environment, because the situation...
05:36 The narrator is helpless here.
05:37 He is helpless?
05:38 He is helpless because, look, we talk about line losses, we talk about theft.
05:42 Those things are also right.
05:44 These are problems, they should be solved.
05:46 The government officials' public spending,
05:49 if you look at its impact throughout the year,
05:52 is Rs. 18,000 to Rs. 20,000.
05:54 This Rs. 20,000 is also coming out of your and my pockets,
05:56 which should not come out, it comes out of the public pocket.
05:58 The main problem you were talking about,
06:01 that Pakistan is in a capacity trap.
06:03 The capacity trap is that you have now got 44,000 megawatts of electricity.
06:11 But you use a maximum of 28,000 megawatts.
06:15 That means you have to pay the remaining 16,000 megawatts, which is not a small amount.
06:21 Which government has done this?
06:23 I will tell you.
06:24 I will come to that too.
06:25 No one is forgiven in this matter.
06:27 Whether you are close to them in terms of your perspective,
06:30 but the atrocities that happened to this nation,
06:32 that happened to my Pakistani, no one is forgiven.
06:35 Whether it is PMLN, whether it is PTI, whether it is People's Party.
06:39 Now, if I complete my point.
06:42 What you did in this, what you do in this, take and pay.
06:47 This is your agreement.
06:48 Whether you take it or not, you have to pay it.
06:52 You used to do this, take and pay, if you had an agreement, then you would have saved.
06:56 Do you know, when these plants were planted,
06:59 how much payment did we pay at that time?
07:01 600 billion annually.
07:02 And do you know how much has increased today?
07:05 2000 billion annually.
07:07 I have heard this news from Malik sir.
07:09 Malik sir, you pay 2000 billion annually.
07:12 Now see, 2 trillion rupees, this is the trap in which you have come.
07:17 Now you know what he says?
07:18 He says, you have made this agreement,
07:20 and you have made an agreement of 30 years.
07:23 You will not be spared from this.
07:24 If you come on this agreement, then Ravi will be…
07:26 For 30 years, you have made this nation,
07:28 here, if Ravi's grandfather comes, then it will be a problem.
07:31 Ravi will be restless.
07:32 I say, you are restless, I am restless, everyone is restless.
07:35 What can happen here?