China News Service, August 23. According to the website of the Beijing Municipal Market Supervision and Administration Bureau, Beijing Babaoshan Tianyuan Funeral Service Center was severely punished for "serious" price violations.

Screenshot of the website of the Beijing Municipal Administration for Market Regulation.

  It is reported that there are three illegal facts in Beijing Babaoshan Tianyuan Funeral Service Center.

  Illegal Fact 1: On October 1, 2017, the party started to set up a business place in the China-Japan Friendship Hospital (No. 2 Cherry Blossom Garden East Street, Chaoyang District, Beijing) to undertake funeral services.

There are 1 office, 1 corpse room, 1 farewell room, and no rest room in the place; the area of ​​the farewell room is 40 square meters, with electronic display screen, air conditioner, corpse coffin, coffin flower decoration (silk simple flower decoration) ), picture frame, sad music, 8 wreaths (100cm diameter silk), white flowers, belonging to a class of high-end decoration.

From January 2019 to April 2022, the fee for renting a farewell room for the parties is 1,900 yuan per session.

According to the "Notice of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Civil Affairs on Further Doing a Good Job in the Charges and Management of Funeral Services" (Jingmin Sheguan Fa [2018] No. 327) "Renting a farewell room: 200-600 yuan/field for first-class high-end decoration, electronic display , air conditioner, corpse coffin, coffin flower decoration (silk simple flower decoration), picture frame, mournful music, wreath (no less than 8, with a diameter of not less than 70cm silk or a diameter of not less than 100cm paper), white flowers, less than 50 square meters The price of 200 yuan per game” stipulates that the government guide price for the party to rent the above farewell room is 200 yuan per game, and the party did not implement the government guide price.

Since the parties were unable to provide legal bills for charging within two years, their illegal gains could not be calculated.

  Illegal Fact 2: The parties signed a "Procurement Contract" with the Civil Aviation General Hospital, and began to set up a business site in the Civil Aviation General Hospital (No. 1 Chaowai Gaojingjia, Chaoyang District, Beijing) on ​​January 1, 2022 to undertake funeral services.

There are 1 office, 1 mortuary, 1 farewell room and 1 lounge in the place; the parties have hung a "mortuary charge item" notice board on the wall of the office, and announced four charge items: freezing Expenses for mortuary, cosmetic surgery, embalming and renting a funeral room.

From January 1, 2022 to April 15, 2022, there will be no price announcement for the commodities "corpse list", "corpse bags" and service items "undressing" and "labor costs" sold by the parties in the business premises.

In view of the fact that the prices of the commodities involved are market-adjusted prices, and it is difficult to fairly calculate the actual selling price, in accordance with the provisions of Article 18 of the Provisions on Administrative Penalties for Price Violations (Revised in 2010), the above-mentioned acts of the parties shall be punished according to the provisions of no illegal gains.

  Illegal Fact 3: During the period from January 1 to April 15, 2022, the parties provided a total of 5 times of body pick-up service at the business premises of the Civil Aviation General Hospital, and the charges ranged from 300 yuan/time to 600 yuan/time , The vehicle for the transportation of the remains is a Mercedes-Benz, and the purchase price is 270,000 yuan.

According to the "Letter on Adjusting the Charges for Some Funeral Services" (Beijing Price (Shou) Zi [2001] No. 351) issued by the Municipal Price Bureau and the Municipal Finance Bureau, "the transportation fee for a mid-range car (the purchase price is between 150,000 and 400,000 yuan)" Within RMB ), the starting price is 50 yuan, and the price is 5 yuan per kilometer for more than 10 kilometers. 1. If you leave the car at night (18:00 to 8:00 the next day), the fare will be 50% more. 2. The transportation fee is calculated on a round-trip basis. 3. The empty driving fee of the car, due to the change of family members, will be charged at half price. According to the "Vehicle Delivery Form for Remains Pickup Service" provided by the parties, the total amount of transportation fees receivable is 1,537.5 yuan, the actual charge by the parties is 1,800 yuan, and the overcharge is 262.5 yuan. All overcharges are counted as illegal gains.

On May 15, 2021, our bureau served a notice of ordering a refund, and ordered the party concerned to refund the overpaid price of 262.5 yuan to the consumer within 5 days from the date of receipt of the notice by the consumer or other operator. way, no consumer found.

(Zhongxin Finance)