Bahraini Post Offices to accept payments of bills and taxes
Bahrain’s residents will be able to pay their bills for water and electricity consumption as well as their municipal taxes at post offices throughout Bahrain, it was reported on May 3, 2005.
Under a memorandum of understanding (MoU), signed between Bahrain’s Ministry of Electricity and Water, the Ministry of Finance and National Economy and the Communications Ministry, the Kingdom’s post offices in Sitra, Riffa and Budaiya started on May 2, 2005 accepting payments of water and electricity bills and municipal taxes under a two-month trial period. According to the MoU, the remaining post offices across Bahrain will start collecting bill payments by the year-end.
The Bahraini residents have so far been able to pay their utility bills only at especially designed service centres and at a number of banks. The new payment option was launched as part of the efforts of Bahrain’s Electricity and Water Ministry to diversify and improve the services it offers to its customers across the Kingdom. As a further step under its development strategy, the ministry plans to launch an electronic bill payment service.
