Generally people don't analyse the electricity bills. As an accountant, however, it is my practice to analyse the monthly bills of electricity of my employers and of my house and to know the reason for fluctuation and increase in electricity expenses such as the KESC has started charging fuel surcharge adjustment from the month of October 2011.
One would be surprised to know that this practice of analysis has saved millions of rupees of my employers from billing of KESC and Wapda and even unearthed wastages and leakages of electric consumption of employers in relation to their production.
When I analysed the August 2011 bill of KESC of a friend living in PECHS, I came to know that there is a hidden deduction of an amount. When I enquired about it, the KESC office said that this deduction of Rs 9,912 is related to the cost of meter, which was changed by the KESC as the previous meter was damaged due to KESC electricity fluctuation.
Electricity comes under the umbrella of utilities used by the general public, the cost of which used to be subsidised globally. My question is how can a poor family afford such a huge cost of meter, if it requires to be changed.
The government must look into it and save the people from living miserable lives in Pakistan, because such abnormal charges of Rs 9,912 as the cost of meter is a public fraud and a respectable poor family cannot afford it. Further, I take this opportunity to mention here that charging 16% general sales tax from utility bills of household consumers/public is illogical and is not rational as they cannot take advantage from VAT regime as businesses do take refund under the VAT/GST regime.
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