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After in recent days the Constitutional Court declared unenforceable article 313 of Law 1955 of 2019, or of the National Development Plan, which provided for the collection of the surcharge for the electric power service destined for the Business Fund of the Superintendency of Services Domiciliary Publics, the entity complied with the decision and issued guidelines to the providers not to make this charge from the billing periods after December 3, the date on which the decision of the high corporation became effective.
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The surcharge of 4 pesos per kilowatt hour consumed applied to strata 4, 5 and 6, commercial, industrial and unregulated.
The superintendent of Public Services, Natasha Avendaño García, stated that the electric power service providers must comply with the duty to collect and collect the surcharge only for the billing periods prior to December 3, 2020. “From now on, the surcharge ceases to be in force”, He specified.
Through External Circular 20201000000344, the control and surveillance body indicated to the providers or collection agents of the surcharge that, in accordance with Sentence C-504 of 2020 issued by the Constitutional Court and announced on December 3, they must take into account has, among others, the following guidelines:
- They will not be able to collect the surcharge for billing periods after December 3, 2020. Invoices corresponding to subsequent billing periods should not include the concept of surcharge per kilowatt established in article 313 of Law 1955 of 2019.
- Only the payment should be made for billing periods prior to December 3, 2020.
- They must collect the related portfolio with the surcharge invoiced but not collected and turn those resources to the Superintendency’s Business Fund.
“The resources that were received and those that remain to be collected will be used in accordance with the provisions of Decree 1265 of 2020 always trying to guarantee the continuity of the provision of the electric power service”Added the official.
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