KMC Tax KE K Bill Ma SHC Ma Darkhuast Dakhil Shahri Bars Pary KE Gadi Aur Ab Office Ma Kachra

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Residents in Karachi are protesting against the addition of the Karachi Municipal Corporation's (KMC) tax to K-Electric’s (KE) bills.

The protests erupted after the KMC, a day ago, came under fire for authorising the KE to collect municipal charges from the people of Karachi through their power bills. Various political parties have rejected the Sindh government and KMC’s move, calling it an effort to fleece Karachi’s people.

The in-charge of KE’s vehicle steps out to talk to the citizen who does not pay any heed to the power supply company’s employee, after which he eventually gives up and drives away the vehicle.

Through the campaign, the public is being urged to throw trash in any of the KE’s vehicles or outside the nearest electricity-providing company’s offices if KMC does not come to clean their areas.

KMC administrator says KMC tax not new
Earlier, regarding the collection of municipality utility charges and tax (MUCT) through the electricity bills, the KMC administrator said this was not a new tax and it was being collected since 2009. The KMC, he said, had reduced MUCT instead of increasing it.

"A tax ranging from Rs50 to Rs200 will be collected,” he said adding that earlier, Rs5,000 per unit was used to be collected from industrial zones.

Murtaza explained that in the past, the tax received in the form of municipal charges would go into the pockets of officers and staff, but now the K-Electric (KE) would give this tax to the KMC and it would be in the form of a cheque that would be deposited in the KMC account.

In response to a question, he said that some people were trying to create an issue in connection with the municipal taxes. He added that the KMC had only 14,000 employees and he did not recruit even a single person so far during his tenure.

The K-Electric has started charging its 3.2 million consumers in its service territory a controversial tax on behalf of the Sindh government, it emerged on Thursday.

For the last one year, the Sindh government had tried to collect the Municipal Utility Charges and Taxes (MUCT) for the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) via electricity bills of the KE, but the opposition parties, including the then ruling party at the centre, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, had foiled the move.

The MUCT was first levied by the then City District Government Karachi during the tenure of former Karachi nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal in 2009. Currently, the KMC is itself collecting the tax but due to low recovery Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah had last year proposed that the tax be collected via KE bills.

Now, the KE has silently started charging a varying amount under the head of MUCT from the people of Karachi and many power consumers came to know about it after they got their new electricity bills this week. They were shocked to see an additional amount written as “MUCT (KMC)” in what they described as their already inflated bill.

The utility says Sindh govt directed it to charge MUCT under local govt law

“The provincial government has directed KE to collect Municipal Utility Charges & taxes (MUCT). This direction is given under Chapter-X Section 100 (1) of the Sindh Local Government Act. K-Electric as an organisation is only following relevant government instructions,” said a KE spokesperson when asked whether the utility imposed a new tax in its bills or not.

However, to a question whether the KE got permission from the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra), the spokesperson stated that the federal and provincial government can impose taxes without Nepra’s approval.

However, when asked whether the KE would transfer the amount collected under the head of MUCT to the Sindh government or the cash-strapped KMC, the spokesperson replied: “The amount will go to KMC.”

Dawn got no response from the KE spokesperson when asked as to how the power utility would charge those consumers living in areas which did not fall within the territorial jurisdiction of the KMC like Defence Housing Authority (DHA), cantonment boards or even parts of Balochistan like Hub.

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