The Federal Antimonopoly Service ordered the exclusion of more than 2.2 billion rubles from tariffs for municipal solid waste management. In 22 areas, tests revealed systemic violations. The main complaint concerns the unreasonable increase in the operators' costs for transporting waste.
In total, the FAS issued 29 orders to eliminate violations. This means that the problem was not found in the calculation of one rate, but in several regional waste management systems at once. Transportation costs are included in the cost of the service, so overestimating them increases the amount included in consumer rates.
The service's decision specifically concerns the adjustment of the tariff base: more than 2.2 billion rubles of expenses recognized as unreasonable must be excluded from the calculations. We are talking about correcting the cost of the service, and not about returning money previously paid to the population. The main result of the audits is the identification of the expenses included in the rates without sufficient justification.