The National Financial Market Council (NCFM) criticized United Russia’s initiative to abolish payment fees for housing and communal services. This was reported by RBC Regarding the appeal of representatives of the banking sector to the State Duma, the government and the Federation Council.
Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin took a corresponding initiative in 2020. Its evaluation took four months and was temporarily halted in May 2020 due to protests by banking industry representatives.
Financial institutions say that the ban on receiving commissions when paying bills for housing and communal services “will lead to forced optimization of business processes, which will lead to banks worsening customer service conditions.” In particular, it is planned to significantly reduce the payment infrastructure due to a sharp decrease in the number of bank payment agencies, whose services are almost entirely paid by commission income, a decrease in deposit interest and an increase in loan interest rates. To cover the costs associated with processing transactions free of charge.
NSFR also supported eliminating such kickbacks for retirees and welfare recipients.
“A more rational solution to the problem of minimizing the costs of paying citizens for housing and communal services is to transfer the obligation to pay for such services to resource-providing organizations in whose favor the payment is made,” says a letter from representatives. financial sector.
Before that the Central Bank supported exclusion of commission from payments for housing and communal services.
Formerly the Council of Ministers of Russia approved Indices of change in wages for housing and communal services for 2024-2028.
Source: Gazeta
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