Archive for January 17th, 2010
Solar panels and inequity
Posted by John, January 17th, 2010 - under Income tax, Solar panels.
Tags: Australian Tax Office, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Carbon tax, Climate change, Equity
Comments: 29
Subsidies for individual solar panel electricity generation are a dumb idea. High feed in tariffs actually impose a burden on poor and working class electricity users and benefit those well enough off to pay $23,000 or thereabouts for solar panels on their roofs. In addition the Rudd Labor Government’s former rebate scheme reimbursed the solar panel owners up to $8000 […]