Briefing about changes of utilities tariffs held in Tatarstan Government House

On 5 August, speaking at a briefing about changes of utilities tariffs held in Tatarstan Government House, the Chairman of the State Committee on Tariffs of the republic Aleksandr Grunichev informed that for most residents of the republic utilities tariffs, which has been reconsidered for the first time in the last year and a half, have increased by 10.8 per cent on average. He said that for comparison during the same period the goods prices inflation made 12.5%,services prices inflation – 17.2%, the price of the food basket have grown by 13.2%, and real estate prices increased be 36.2%. “During this period the wages have risen by 31.2% so we are somewhere in the same dynamics and in some respects even lower,” Aleksandr Grunichev emphasized.

He explained that the rise was the result of several reasons and first of all the obligatory indexation all over the country, second the necessity to raise subsistence wages of the utilities providing companies staff or an average wage in the municipalities and costs of new communal infrastructure.

The Chairman of the Committee told that the maximum permissible tariff deviation in the republic was 4.9%, which means that in some regions of Tatarstan tariffs could grow by15.7% at most.

He said that gas price for population grew by 10.2%, energy price – by 8.8% for residents with gas cookers, by14.5% for residents with electric cookers and by 8.8% for rural residents. Waste management tariffs for multi-apartment and private houses have grown by 4%, he added.

Aleksandr Grunichev also informed about growth of tariffs on heating, cold and hot water supply and canalization.

Tatarstan Deputy Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Protection Natalya Butayeva told journalists  about utility payments subsidies allocated to certain categories of residents  such as WWII veterans and families and clarified: “Nearly 700 thousand Tatarstan residents receive such subsidies,”  and added that in 2024 nearly 7bn rubles have been allocated from regional and federal budgets on such subsidies.

The regional First Deputy Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector Aleksey Frolov told journalists that the utility payment arrears have reached 9.5bn rubles in the republic which have accumulated from 2000 till 2024 as the debts of the population for utility services are not discharged.