Is it reasonable to open a natural gas account in a shopping mall? What can be removed?

The initial installation fee and account opening fee for natural gas to the home have been cancelled, and those that have been collected by the owner should be refunded. This is borne by the real estate developer, and the owner only bears the material cost of opening gas indoors for a few hundred yuan at most.

Opinions of the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments on cleaning up and standardizing the charges of urban water supply, power supply, gas supply and heating industry to promote the high-quality development of the industry (Guo Ban Han [2020]129)

Q: What unreasonable charges and links are mainly cleared and cancelled?

A: Focus on the construction of projects inside and outside the red line of building zoning, registration and installation access, acceptance and opening, and facility maintenance fees. , speed up the pace and intensity of clean-up, and cancel unreasonable, non-compliant and related charges that have been included in the pricing cost.

First, the water supply link charges. Cancel the installation fee charged by the water supply enterprise and its affiliated or entrusted installation engineering company, the opening and closing fees of similar names and other similar name account opening fees.

Second, the power supply link charges. Cancel the meter shifting fee, debugging fee and other similar fees charged by power supply enterprises and their affiliated or entrusted installation engineering companies to users in the acceptance and access of telegraph installation projects.

The third is the gas supply fee. Cancel the charging items that gas enterprises should recover their costs through gas distribution prices, including: pressurization fees and other similar items involving municipal pipe network assets outside the red line of building division; Connection fees related to the connection between the municipal pipe network and the red line of the building division and other construction and acceptance access links; It involves the maintenance of facilities from the red line of building division to the gas meter. Cancel the charging items that have nothing to do with gas engineering installation or are included in the engineering installation cost within the red line of building division, including opening fees and other similar items.

Fourth, the heating link charges. Cancel the grid-connected supporting fees and other similar fees charged by urban central heating enterprises in northern heating areas. If the heating facilities belonging to the user's assets within the red line of building division are handed over to the heating enterprise for management in accordance with the provisions of laws and regulations, the related maintenance costs shall be borne by the heating enterprise and included in the operating costs of the heating enterprise, and no additional fees shall be charged to the user.

The fifth is the cost of access projects. Within the scope of urban planning and construction land, the investment interface of water supply, power supply, gas supply and heating enterprises should be extended to the red line of user building division. Unless otherwise stipulated by laws, regulations and relevant policies, users will not bear any expenses outside the red line of construction projects. From the user's building zoning red line to the public * * * pipe network, the network engineering construction cost is included in the enterprise operating cost; According to the provisions of the part borne by the government, the government should timely allocate funds to entrust the construction of water supply, power supply, gas supply and heating enterprises, or directly invest in the construction by the government.

Sixth, other related charges. It is strictly forbidden for government departments and relevant institutions to charge for compulsory verification of water supply, power supply, gas supply and heating metering devices; If a water supply, power supply, gas supply and heating enterprise or user voluntarily entrusts relevant institutions to verify the metering device, the verification fee shall be paid by the entrusting party according to the principle of "who entrusts and who pays". However, if there is any problem with the verified metering device, the public utility enterprise shall bear the verification fee and replace the qualified metering device for the user free of charge. It is strictly forbidden to charge users for water, electricity and heat metering devices. Any unit in charge of water supply, power supply, gas supply, heating costs, it is strictly prohibited to charge users separately. The construction and installation costs of water supply, power supply, gas supply, heating pipelines and supporting equipment and facilities within the red line of new commercial housing, affordable housing and other building divisions shall be uniformly included in the cost of housing development and construction, and shall not be charged separately to the buyer.

All the above fees are cancelled, and there is no legal and effective policy basis; For example, local governments authorize water supply, power supply, gas supply and heating enterprises to collect special construction fees, and compensate enterprises' income in the name of network access fees, centralized pipe network construction fees and network connection supporting fees. , should be combined with the rationalization of water, electricity, heating prices, establish and improve the subsidy mechanism, and gradually cancel, the specific cancellation time is determined by all localities.