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LHC Seeks Answers on GST collection from E-Bills

August 10, 2022 by pescobill Leave a Comment

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday heard a petition against collection of General Sales Tax (GST) on electricity bills.

Justice Shujaat Ali Khan was hearing a petition by citizen Nasir Salman against collection of GST through electricity bills. The court issued notices to the other respondents, including the Federal Bureau of Revenue (FBR) and WAPDA, and sought their reply on August 22.

The petitioner named the Prime Minister, President of Pakistan, Chief Secretary FBR, Chairman WAPDA, Law Minister and Ministry of Information as respondents to the petition.

The public prosecutor is newly collected from small traders and retailers through electricity bills illegally. According to him, traders who do not consume a single unit of electricity should pay for it.

The petitioner said that the government’s low inflation claim has been exposed. He said that the Prime Minister is no longer ‘Sadiq’ and ‘Amin’ (honest and trustworthy).
The court also asked the prime minister to question the sharp rise in prices of petrol, gas, electricity, medicine and other essential items. The petitioner urged the LHC to set aside the orders to levy GST on electricity bills. After the first hearing, LHC Justice Shujaat Ali Khan sought response from FBR, WAPDA and other respondents.

The meeting was adjourned until August 22.

The federal government, through the Finance Bill 2022-23, has imposed a fixed tax levy on retailers through electricity bills.

Earlier, the Lahore High Court (LHC) banned the collection of Rs 6,000 fixed monthly GST on electricity bills of lawyers.

The LHC Rawalpindi was hearing a case on a petition filed by the Lahore High Court Rawalpindi Bar Association regarding the collection of sales tax from bar associations. Justice Tariq Saleem Shaikh termed the move to impose general sales tax of up to six thousand rupees on electricity bills of law firms as illegal.
The court said that the collection of GST on electricity bills is invalid and the amount should be refunded to the lawyers. The court noted that attorneys are not salesmen or salespeople subject to sales tax.

Tax Exempted From PESCO Bills

August 8, 2022 by pescobill Leave a Comment

Good news for the consumer of Pesco Compamy that On Thursday, the federal government decided to cancel the fixed tax regime on electricity bills for small entrepreneurs who will benefit from it for a year. This was announced in this regard by Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Miftah Ismail and Federal Minister for Power Khurram Dastgir Khan.

Miftah Ismail said Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz had given instructions to look into the matter and after a day-long analysis, the government decided to withdraw the fixed tax for small traders within a year.

However, Khurram Dastgir said the old system will remain intact for the first three months of the current fiscal year and the government will discuss the flat tax regime with traders after three months.

It is worth mentioning here that the government has introduced a flat tax for small businessmen on their electricity bills in the FY23 budget. According to the decision, commercial electricity bills up to Rs 30,000 will be charged a flat tax of Rs 3,000 from July 1, a tax of Rs 5,000 will be levied on bills between Rs 30,001 and Rs 50,000, while charges above Rs 50. 000 but less than Rs.100,000 will be subject to a flat tax of Rs.10,000.

The above fees apply to small business owners and sellers who are registered in the List of active taxpayers and have settled all fees for the years 2020 and 2021. Those who do not submit them will automatically be charged a double amount.

Recently, it came to light that unregistered consumers with zero or minimum units were charged a monthly tax of Rs 6,000 on their electricity bills.

Then Finance Minister Miftah Ismail announced a change to the scheme where up to 150 units of electricity consumption are exempted from tax. It also removed the condition of collecting double amount of tax from unregistered traders, besides providing immunity from tax assessments, audits and raids by FBR officials.

According to FBR, there are around 900,000 retail shops in Pakistan and the government wants to bring 300,000 of these shops under the tax net.

If you want to read it in urdu just click the link below and download pdf file.

Tax Exempted From PESCO Bills

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NEPRA: Hikes FPA By Rs9.89 Per Unit For June 2022

July 29, 2022 by pescobill Leave a Comment

Overwhelmed by inflation, rising oil and food prices, Pakistanis were in for a shock when the National Electricity Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) on Thursday decided to hike electricity tariff by Rs. 9.89 per unit.

According to the National Regulatory Authority, the rate increase occurred as part of the fuel price adjustment(FPA) for the month of June200.

This decision has imposed an additional burden of billions of rupees on electricity consumers. The increase does not apply to lifetime consumers.

The amount of fuel price adjustment will be appear in August Bill 2022. It is very sad news that the consumer of Pesco already bearing difficulties in paying the regular bill and this increase will create extra burden on the Pesco consumers. This will apply on all the other companies of WAPDA.

The pesco bill will be night mare for the consumer of pesco. The GOVT must think about the increase in FPA on regular braise. On the other hand the GOVT says that the increase in fuel price at international market they have to take such kind of steps. May in future there will be relief for the consumer of pesco.

NEPRA: Approves Three-Phased Rs7.91 Hike In Power Tariff

July 23, 2022 by pescobill Leave a Comment

NEPRA Approves Three Phased Rs7.91 Hike In Power Tariff

According to the NEPRA official the NEPRA is going to revise the base tariff by 7.91 in three phases respectively. The increase will be effect from July,200. August 2022 and September 2022. Authority of NEPRA decided on Friday that Federal Govt give permission to increase in base tariff up to 24.82 per unit which is right now 16.91 per unit. The authority had earlier determined a rate hike and communicated its decision to the federal government, which proposed a flat rate for end consumers after including subsidies and surcharges. for all electricity distribution companies (DISCOs) and K-Electric.

The NEPRA chairman said during a hearing on Thursday that the authority has fixed the rate while maintaining the dollar rate at Rs 200, which has now reached Rs 226. “NEPRA’s job is to approve the rate while it is the government’s right to provide subsidy,” he added.

However, Power Division officials informed the authority that there will be no hike in tariffs for lifeline and protected category consumers and said the government will provide a subsidy of Rs 220 billion so that at least 50 per cent of consumers will not be affected by the latest hike.

It is important to note that earlier, after hearing, the authority had forwarded the decision to increase by Rs 7.9/unit to the power ministry and asked the government to issue a notification in this regard. The authority approved the increase due to increase in fuel prices, cost capacity and impact of rupee devaluation. Following the NEPRA decision, the Shehbaz Sharif-led coalition government also approved a huge incremental hike in the basic electricity price by Rs 7.91 per unit and directed the authority to take another step in this regard.

The tariff hike for FY23 has been set at Rs 24.82 per kilowatt hour (kWh) on a national average, up by Rs 7.9078 per kWh from the earlier fixed national average tariff of Rs 16.91 per kWh. from NEPRA.

According to NEPRA, electricity distribution companies (DISCOs) include Multan Electric Power Company (MEPCO), Gujranwala Electric Power Company (GEPCO), Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (HESCO), Sukkur Electric Power Company (SEPCO), Quetta Electric Supply Company (QESCO). Peshawar Electric Power Company (PESCO) and Tribal Electric Supply Company (TESCO) submitted a multi-year tariff petition for FY21 to FY25, while Islamabad Electric Supply Company (IESCO), Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) and Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) submitted annual request for adjustment within the framework of the already permitted multi-year rate.

Power Purchase Price (EPP) is projected at Rs 1,152 billion, while capacity costs including NTDC and HVDC costs are projected at Rs 1,366 billion and total DISCO revenue requirements including DISCO margin and prior year adjustment (PYA) are projected at 2 Rs , 805 billion with projected sales of 113,001 GWh. Profit also noted that MEPCO, GEPCO, HESCO, SEPCO, QESCO, PESCO & TESCO had earlier approved investments of around Rs 406 billion for their distribution investment program over five years, while sanctioned DISCOs reduced T&D losses from 13.46 to 11 .70 percent for FY23.

PAY SCALE REVISED w.e.f 01-07-2022 BY THE FINANCE DIVISION OF PAKISTAN

July 1, 2022 by pescobill Leave a Comment

Congratulation to the Employee of the Federal Govt. Finally the notification came for the increase in the BPS of Govt Employee. The notification issued by the Finance Division Of Islamic Republic Of Pakistan. You can download the copy of notification of Revised BPS from the link given below.

Revision of Basic Pay Scales & Allowances of Civil Servants of the Federal Government (2022)

Here is the new revised BPS chart for the GOVT employee to check and fix there pay by the help of the given chart after including the five ad-hoc allowances. The increase in the salary will be on the BPS of 2017 first and then the Ad-hoc allowances will be merged into the basic pay. After that new stages will be created according to the chart. The employee may be get increased in pay by new stage. The difference will be add into the pay.

PAY SCALE REVISED w.e.f 01-07-2022 BY THE FINANCE DIVISION OF PAKISTAN

Download the new salary chart in form of excel sheet and fix your pay.

NEPRA Imposed FPA for May 2022 Rs.7.90 Per Unit

June 29, 2022 by pescobill Leave a Comment

NEPRA has announced the fuel price adjustment for the month of May,2022. The increase in will be included in billing Cycle for July 2022.

it will create a burden on the consumer of PESCO. The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) on Monday indicated another increase in

electricity tariff by Rs7.90 per unit on account of monthly fuel adjustment for May 2022.

The CPPA (Central Power Purchasing Agency) had submitted an application for an increase of Rs7.96 per unit, NEPRA said. According to the

preliminary examination of the data, NEPRA worked out an increase of Rs7 per unit.

In April, the power distribution companies had charged Rs3.99 per unit on account of fuel adjustment, which was for one month only.

The Regular increase in the fuel price will create lots of burden for consumer of Pesco to pay their electricity bill along with the fuel price adjustment. This time in July the pesco bill will be a night mare for the consumer of PESCO.

Increase in Fuel Price Rs. 7.90 per unit means that it will be more then Rs 10 per unit. The amount will appear in the column of Fuel Price Adjustment in the bill of July 2022.

Net Metering SOP

June 29, 2022 by pescobill Leave a Comment

How to Apply And Where To Apply For Net Metering?

Here is the complete guide for the consumers of Pesco, who wants to apply for the net metering. Please follow the instruction as given below with full details and procedure for the connection of net metering.

APPLICATION AND INTERCONNECTION PROCESS

The SOP for load above 25KW as approved by BoD PESCO in its 120^th meeting Dated 30^th Oct. 2017 as notified by Company secretary PESCO letter no 2228-29/ 120^th BoD. Dated 09/11/2017 shall be in vogue.

As purchase of Energy is involved, so all the cases must be monitored by the office of DG MIRAD PESCO. Cases of above 25KW sanctioned load, DG License from NEPRA shall be received and processed through the office of DG MIRAD PESCO.

Reference to Decision taken by Federal Cabinet in its meeting held on 31.08.21, NEPRA letter no.
DG(Licensing)/LAN-100/41048 dated 19.11.21, the consumers with sanctioned load below 25KW
were exempted from obtaining generation license from NEPRA regarding DG facility metering.

A revised activity flow chart for net-metering was issued vide circular # B/3/2/ACWA/19-PF dated: –
18/01/2022 by Ministry of Energy GoP. Based on these directions, a revised Net-metering SOP for PESCO is hereby proposed for approval please.

Reference to Decision taken by Federal Cabinet in its meeting held on 31.08.21, NEPRA letter no. DG(Licensing)/LAN-100/41048 dated 19.11.21 and direction of the PESCO Management to
expedite the net metering, the existing PESCO’s workflow for processing of Net Metering
applications from 5KW and above is proposed as under:

The Net-metering connections are hereby proposed to be allowed on those feeders having less than 50% ATC loss so as to avoid PESCO from further loss of the Imported Energy from the Net-
metering Consumers.

REGISTRATION

1.1. Submission of Application form: (Processing Time = 2 Days)

PESCO offices shall receive Net-metering applications (up to 1MW) according to the existing

sanctioning powers as defined in NEPRA Consumer Service Manual-2021, on first come first serve
basis.

For connections on General Transformer, Net-metering connection be granted until the grid

connected solar roof top photovoltaic (SRTPV) installed capacity reaches 30% of the closest

upstream general distribution transformer rated capacity on the verification by Sanctioning officer.

1.2. Provide information and NEPRA approved documents:

Any applicant who meets the requirement of DG as defined in NEPRA (Alternative & Renewable Energy) Distributed Generation and Net Metering Regulations, 2015, submits their application along with all necessary documents to PESCO Sanctioning Office. Standard Application form is attached as Schedule-II.

1.3. Submission of application along with requisite documents in original: Following list of Documents are required to be submitted with application form:

S/No	Document	Status
1	Inspection of Electrical Installation Certificate Signed by authorized Engineer of AEDB Certified Company as per direction of AEDB issued vide letter No. B/3/1/Net Met/09 dated 13-02-2018	Mandatory
2	Site plan showing location of external disconnect switch.	Mandatory
3	Schematic drawings, Single line diagram of the system.	Mandatory
4	Technical Data of components including solar modules, invertors, etc.	Mandatory
5	Copy of last paid electricity bill. (Name of applicant and name mentioned on electricity bill must be same).	Mandatory
6	Attested copy of CNIC.	Mandatory
7	Agreement form as per Schedule-I.	Mandatory

8	Application form as per Schedule-II.	Mandatory
9	Application for exemption from the requirement of section 24 of the Act as specified in schedule-IV.	Mandatory
10	Ownership proof.	Mandatory
11	Electric Inspector wiring test report (for above 25KW cases).	Mandatory
12	Affidavit by Distributed generator as specified in Schedule-VI.	Mandatory
13	Load flow study (for 25 KW and above If required).	Mandatory
14	AEDB/ DG MIRAD PESCO attested copy of “DG Certificate” of installer and vender.	Mandatory
15	Any other document.	If required

1.4. Acknowledgement of application:

PESCO Sanctioning Office will acknowledge its receipt (with clear proper diary number and date) and inform the applicant whether the application is completed in all respect or not.

1.5. Incomplete application form: (Processing Time = 5 Days)

In case the application is found incomplete as per above check list, PESCO Sanctioning Office will
return the application and will ask the applicant to complete the application and re-submit it. The
applicant will have to re-submit the application in complete form to PESCO Sanctioning Office
within 2 Days.

For more and complete guide download the pdf manual with the given link below.

Download Complete Guide

NEPRA Approves Rs1.55 Per Unit in Power Tariff

June 17, 2022 by pescobill Leave a Comment

Alert! for the consumers of Pesco and other Discos that Nepra has announced the Quarter Tariff Adjustment which will be applied in the month on july 2022. It will be adjusted as quarter tariff adjustmnet in the pesco bills. The consumer have to pay extra amount along with their current bill in the month of july 2022.

The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) on Thursday permitted a hike in the strength tariff by using Rs1.55 per unit.

According to the NEPRA, Discos had requested NEPRA for quarterly changes in electrical energy fees on which the authority, after scrutinizing the data, permitted an extend of Rs 1.55 per unit for Discos clients with impact from July 2022.

It introduced that tariff adjustment would be effective for three months and would practice to all Discos clients barring Lifeline

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FPA For April 2022

June 1, 2022 by pescobill Leave a Comment

NEPRA has increased the electricity tariff by Rs3.99 per unit for the month of April ,2022.

The acutal cost will be Rs. 4.74 per units after including taxes.

NEPRA proposes in April 2022 to increase the electricity tariff by Rs 3.99 per unit under the FCA title, which will place an additional burden of approximately Rs 51 billion if companies pass on electricity to consumers. However, this increase in the electricity tariff will not apply to K-Electric consumers and the lifeline.

The increase in FPA Rs.3.99 per unit will be approximately Rs.5 when taxes will included in it.

The amount of PFA will be appear in the bills of June,2022. The PESCO consumer will pay extra amount along with their current month bill.

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Electricity Tariff Revised

May 30, 2022 by pescobill Leave a Comment

Rivised Tariff By NEPRA

NEPRA is to going to revise the basic tariff of 10 DISCO’S. The basic tariff is Rs.16.50. The NEPRA is going to increase Rs. 8 in basic tariff, after increase the basic tariff will be more than Rs. 24. Increasing in basic tariff will increase the rates of units. This new revised tariff is going to implement for 1st of July, 2022 .

It will be a massive increase in cost of electricity. All the consumer will suffer form this action. All the burden will be on the consumers of Pesco and other distributive Companies under PEPCO.