The increase of tariffs on petroleum products will cause a collapse in consumer prices

Public hearing on the impact of the tariff increase on excise and some other goods  were discussed today at the at the office of the Institute of Reporters Freedom and Safety.

According to the moderator of the event Mehman Aliyev, the director of Turan news agency, prices increased is  unreasonable, without legal basis, without public debate and sudden, as  usual. Thus, during the last increase in utility prices (January 6, 2007)  the head of state was away; on  December 3, this year  the responsibility for the rise in prices was imposed the Tariff Council under the Cabinet of Ministers.

As a result, in early 2014, the public is entitled to expect the increase in consumer inflation , including the price for public transportation , agricultural products , food and non-food products . The reason for this is that the real economy is dominated by monopolies, government officials, said Aliyev.

According to him, Azerbaijan under the oil received from a consortium of Azeri-Chirag- Gunashli (ACG ) is about 88 billion cubic meters of natural gas free delivery to the consumer sostavlet which no more than 10 manats per 1 thousand cubic meters, but the population is paying 100 manat . " In 2004-2006, we argued that the population consumes less than 1 bcm.  But state-owned company " Azerigaz " reports cite a figure of about 3 bcm. Then the number of subscribers receiving gas was approximately 750 thousand subscribers.  Today category "population" is 1.5 million According to the state oil company, they consume about 2 billion cubic meters of gas per year. This confirms our previous conclusions about the scale postscript in gas supplies, " Aliyev said.

Due to lack of sufficient refining capacity most of the final users of the category "population" gets the raw gas, which leads to poisoning and even fatal.

The government claims the growing relative importance of non-oil sector of the economy, but there is not real economy on the background on the actual monopolization and lack of production capacity, able to compete for the world and European markets.

According to the state budget for 2014, adopted by the Parliament (not yet approved by the head of state,) revenue part is projected at 18 billion 384 million manat, most part of which is (50.8 % or 9 billion 337 million manats )  the proportion of transfers from state Oil Fund of Azerbaijan.

In addition, it is planned to spend on investment projects 6 billion 281 million  and 954.730 manat, much more than health care , science and education combined . This uncontrolled position "will eat" 31.3 % of all budget expenditures ( 20 billion 63 million manat) - every year the government invests billions for the construction of roads and bridges, which are then repeatedly repaired with the same financial scale. - 17D-