A bill that would abolish commissions on payments for housing and communal services may be considered for second reading in the State Duma next week. About this “Parliamentary newspaper” said Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Construction, Housing and Communal Services Svetlana Razvorotneva.
According to him, the exact date of review of the document has not yet been determined because amendments to the bill will have to be adopted by the relevant committee. The bill was submitted to the State Duma in February 2020 and received first reading in April of the same year.
“The bill is important, but it has been around since the last meeting because the resistance of the banks is quite strong,” Razvorotneva said.
The MP also said the committee plans to stop possible attempts by banks to shift commissions to service providers. According to him, changes will be developed that will directly ban this.
“These costs cannot be included in the tariff, so the cost of services to the population will not increase. If banks are not prohibited from transferring all these lost revenues to management and sourcing organizations, their financial situation will worsen further. “Many of them are already in a pre-bankruptcy state, which means that the quality of services provided to citizens will decrease even further,” he said.
26 November National Financial Market Council (NCFM) spoke He criticized United Russia’s initiative to abolish payment commissions for housing and communal services. 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.”
Formerly Central Bank supported exclusion of commission from payments for housing and communal services.