Solar panels and inequity
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...
View ArticleSolar panel subsidies: it seemed like a good idea at the time
It must have seemed like a good idea at the time. Subsidise those individuals who put solar panels on their roofs. The Rudd Labor Government paid up to $8,000 to those who did. It was so successful...
View ArticleSolar panels: they scam, we pay
Here in Canberra the Independent Competition and Regulatory Commission has exposed the ACT Government’s subsidies to solar roof panel owners as both regressive and extremely costly. In a draft report...
View ArticleSolar panel feed-in tariffs scam the poor to pay the rich
This is a letter I sent to The Australian today in response to a front page story they had about the exorbitant cost of the feed-in tariff subsidy being borne by the poor. While the whole exercise was...
View ArticleTaxing solar panel income
I sent this letter, on the taxation of solar panel income, to the Sydney Morning Herald recently. John _________ Two recent letters (Barry Moore May 27 and Paul Gittings May 28) raise the issue of...
View ArticleAre returns received by householders from electricity generated by solar...
My article (with others) on the taxation of payments for household solar panel generated electricity has just been published in the Australian Tax Review. ‘Are returns received by householders from...
View ArticleSolar panel payments and income tax
My latest missive to the Canberra Times, prompted by a page one article about solar panels. Given I have a success rate of 0% these days with the Canberra Times letters, I expect this too to go into...
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