Cenpelco, San Carlos City bill dispute still unsettled
SAN CARLOS CITY–The Central Pangasinan Electric Cooperative (Cenpelco) and the local government of this city will be meeting again soon for the settlement of their longstanding dispute over taxes and electric bills.
Engr. Rodrigo Corpuz, officer-in-charge general manager of Cenpelco, said he recently submitted a letter to San Carlos Mayor Julier Resuello saying that they are ready to pay the current assessment of their taxes and at the same time requesting the city government to settle its outstanding monthly electric bills from November 2013 to present.
The city government is currently finalizing its computation on the unpaid real property taxes of Cenpelco.
The dispute between the two parties started in 1984 over the taxes and 1987 on the unpaid electric bills.
“To us, the city government owes us unpaid electric consumption and the city government is also asking us to pay unpaid real property taxes,“ Corpuz said.
The two parties initially agreed to compute only the basic dues and exclude surcharges and interests.
Once this has been settled, they will hold another round of discussion on other dues.
In talks before Christmas last year, they agreed that the initial computations will be based on the period starting October 2013.
In the meantime, Corpuz vowed that Cenpelco will not cut off the power supply of the city government until the issues are settled.
He added that Cenpelco is hoping for the immediate resolution of the matter as the non-payment of San Carlos of its electric consumption is hurting the company financially.
Resuello said in an earlier interview that Cenpelco claims that the city government owes it more than P174-million in unpaid electric bills.
On the other hand, the mayor said Cenpelco owes the city P212-million in unpaid real property taxes “since late 80s”.
Resuello pointed out that it was in 1987 when the city government stopped paying its electric bills after it won a legal battle over the unpaid real property taxes of Cenpelco.
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