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The Committee on Energy House Resolutions 34, 116, to address the power supply prolonged power outages in the
PHILRECA Party-list Representative Power Corporation (NPC) in cases and Occidental Mindoro. He events.
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Electricity be affordable, should electricity
The imposition of tax on a nonprofit cooperative shall result in the increase of the amount payable on the electricity bill of the consumers since it is considered as a pass-through charge. Ultimately, the end consumers shall shoulder the burden of these taxes.
Last December 13, the DOJ issued Opinion No. 31 series of 2022, reversing the previous 2014 opinion by stating that all electric cooperatives, regardless of whether they are non-stock, non-profit cooperatives under the National Electrification Administration, stock cooperatives under the Cooperative Development Authority, or stock corporations registered under the Securities and Exchange Commission, can avail of the preferential rights under the LGC as long as they comply with the financial and operational standards set by the NEA.
NPC Officer-in-Charge from the Island of Mindoro, it passes the obligation of power explained that even in cases where NPC cannot automatically come the use of government resources providers. He added that having utilities group areas would be costly Rep. De Jesus countered electricity at all”, and stressed that there should be a continuous supply Rep. De Jesus further manifested areas could only be resolved by “This is what the Electric legislature, we have been taking We passed the Microgrid Systems unserved and underserved areas
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The 2013 amendment to RA 10531 inserted Section 32-A to clarify that ECs can still enjoy the preferential rights granted to cooperatives under the LGC. However, the 2014 DOJ Opinion No. 55 declared that ECs are still liable for local taxes, including the RPT.
The Power Bloc highlighted the negative impact
The legal opinion, addressed to the Power Bloc and the Department of Energy Secretary Raphael Perpetuo M. Lotilla is aligned with the NEA’s goal “to empower and enable ECs to cope with the changes brought about by the restructuring of the electric power industry”.
