The formation of tariffs for housing and communal services in Ukraine is a time mine. They should be calculated taking into account the level of the people’s wealth, not the needs of the International Monetary Fund or market demands, as it is happening now, said the former Minister of Housing and Communal Services Oleksandr Popov. He wrote about this on his Facebook page.
“As long as the Ukraine’s authorities bankrupt their own people, they bankrupt the entire state. The effective power in setting the tariffs should be based on the level of citizens’ solvency. The payment bill should not exceed 10 percent of the monthly family budget. Then people will have money not only for housing, food, transportation and medication expenses, but also for entertainment and recreation. The small and medium size businesses will receive a development market with salaries to become high and more taxes to come to the budget, increasing its revenues,” Oleksandr Popov said.
To Mr Popov, ignoring the housing and public utilities problem by the government will inevitably result in the technological and social disasters in Ukraine this fall. After all, if people are unable to pay, the debts are going to grow and, finally, the key industry enterprises will be stopped.
“Preventing a crisis is possible if to reconsider approaches to tariffs setting and management in the industry on an urgent basis, and, above all, to establish uninterrupted supply of cheap gas,” the message says.
Popov also recalled that the average salary in Kyiv in 2013 was amounted to USD 725, whereas today it is USD 460. That is, the state is robbing every Ukrainian for USD 265 each month! And the real pensioners’ incomes have been halved.
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