In the past two days, the Central Broadcasting Corporation Voice of China continued to pay attention to the illegal charging of "gas and heating opening fees" by some real estate developers in Yuzhou City, Henan Province, and the relevant regulatory authorities buckled and buckled each other.
After the report was broadcast, Yuzhou City responded that it had ordered the developer to refund the illegal fees, and in the future, it will issue normative documents to solve the problem from the source.
However, the
reporter received the same problem from people in many places in Henan-the developer charged gas and tap water opening fees in violation of regulations, and the regulatory authorities did not substantively supervise it
.
Beginning in 2019, relevant national ministries and commissions have issued multiple documents requiring that the fees that have been included in the installation cost of the project should not be charged in the name of opening fees.
Why are there still illegal charges in many places in Henan?
2019, the National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the State Administration of market three ministries jointly issued the "Guiding Opinions on Regulating the urban gas engineering, installation charges," comments the requirements
prohibit the charging gas opening expenses, net fees and do not Reasonable fees
.
△ Screenshot of the National Development and Reform Commission document
In December 2020, the General Office of the State Council forwarded the "Notice on Cleaning up and Regulating Charges for the Urban Water Supply, Power Supply, Gas and Heating Industry to Promote the High-quality Development of the Industry", reiterating that the
removal of unreasonable charges will not be based on opening fees, account opening fees, and merger fees. Fees that have been included in the installation cost of the project are charged in the name of network fees
.
△Screenshot of documents from the General Office of the State Council
People in many places in Henan reflect
local
There is still the problem of illegally charging gas and tap water opening fees
After the report was broadcast, the masses in many places in Henan reported to the reporter of the Voice of China Central Broadcasting Corporation that
there still existed the problem of illegal charges in the local area
.
In the "Wuyang Capital" community in Wuyang County, Luohe, the owner Mr. Li paid the opening fee for gas and tap water not long ago. As in the case of Yuzhou
, the developer would not give the key without
paying
.
Mr. Li said, “I’m from the capital of Wuyang. Natural gas is 2500 yuan and tap water is 800 yuan. You don’t pay? How can you decorate without electricity or water? He (the developer) said you can’t pay for any item. I also see. The (country) notice, don’t accept it, they still accept it!"
△Tap water account opening fee receipt
In Kaifeng, Mr. Liu bought commercial houses in the urban area and Qixian County at the same time
. The house he bought
in the
downtown area of Kaifeng does not need to pay any opening fee. In the Beihuan No. 1 Community in Qixian County, the developer must ask them to pay for gas and gas. Tap water opening fee
, and the contract has long stipulated that the gas and tap water should be installed by the developer.
Mr. Liu said: “There are probably less than 100 owners in the first phase of the community. After calculating, the fees charged are about 1 million yuan. I collected 2,600 yuan for natural gas and 1,000 yuan for tap water. We also checked on the Internet. There are regulations in the country. I went to the developers to give me an opinion because of this matter, but they couldn't give a reply at all."
△Receipt of natural gas account opening fee
In the Xuanyuan Lake No. 1 community in Xinzheng City, the owner Mr. Dai had the same experience. The
neighboring community refunded the gas opening fee, but it was their turn to implement it
.
Mr. Dai said: “At the time, there was one item in the house purchase contract that natural gas reserved ports when handing over the house, but at the same time a fee of 2,800 yuan was charged when paying the down payment. To the Xinzheng Market Supervision Administration, the answer was that the developer did not They have no law enforcement powers to cooperate with."
A document issued by the Market Supervision Administration to Mr. Dai and other owners stipulates that all heating and gas supply costs are included in the development and construction costs and do not need to be borne by the owners.
However, the Market Supervision Administration also stated that the higher-level departments have such regulations, but they have not stipulated how they should enforce them or how to enforce them.
"
This can be regarded as a kind of evasiveness, and it is exactly the same as Yuzhou's reply
." Mr. Dai said.
△Yuzhou City Shangcheng District
The developer refuses to refund the opening fee?
Henan market supervision department: plans to solve the problem in two steps
How are the documents issued by the state implemented in Henan?
A staff member of the Henan Provincial Development and Reform Commission told reporters that the
documents were indeed received and distributed to all localities. However, for the specific implementation, due to institutional reforms, the Henan Provincial Market Supervision Administration must be asked
.
The staff member said: "Now we are asking the local development and reform commissions to verify this matter. By analogy, the National Development and Reform Commission has explicitly banned this matter. But because of the institutional reform involved, in 2018, the price monitoring function was assigned to the Market Supervision Administration. We and The Market Supervision Bureau has also communicated with them and will make local governments pay attention to this matter. For specific price regulation, I suggest you consult the Market Supervision Bureau again because we were expressly prohibited by the policy at the time."
△Screenshots of excerpts from documents of the General Office of the State Council
If the developer refuses to refund the opening fee, how should the market supervision and management department enforce the law?
Relevant staff members of the Henan Provincial Market Supervision Administration told reporters that
they are studying the problem of illegal charges in Yuzhou City, and will issue relevant plans to take action across the province
.
As for why the country issued two documents in 2019 and 2020 to prohibit the collection of related fees, but there are still some areas in the province that have not implemented it in time, the staff member did not answer.
The staff member said: "Now we are investigating this matter. It should be a two-step process. First, everyone may go there to find out the situation, study this matter thoroughly, and figure it out. The next step may be a whole province. action."
When will the opening fees and grid connection fees that should not be charged be completely eliminated?
China Voice will continue to pay attention to the progress of the incident.