Economy
Posted: 4 years ago

Special Platform Created to Allow Citizens to Refuse to Pay Gas and Electricity Taxes

The electronic platform will be launched in several days, which will allow citizens, to indicate whether they want to use a government-based program or not, that subsidizes three months' taxes of gas and electricity. 

As Georgian National Energy and Water Supply Regulatory Commission declared, specialists are working for launching this platform. Also, the commission noted, that after announcing this initiative, many more people called, who expressed wishes to cover their own electricity and gas costs.

Yesterday the Georgian government announced that consumers using less than 200 kilowatts of electricity per month and less than 200m3 of natural gas will be fully funded by the state in March, April, and May, totally for three months. Funding also includes cleaning and water taxes.