Why? I'm not sure I'm properly understanding your point above. Why shouldn't families be obliged to actually make a claim for this sort of rebate? There is a growing culture of expecting money to just land in the bank account.
More jobs are going. Hastie's is in strife. Don't tell me this has nothing to do with the Carbon Tax.
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THE cost of producing electricity in Queensland will jump 43 per cent largely because of the carbon tax according to the state's regulator, which set price rises of up to 20 per cent yesterday for big users not already under contract for the next financial year.
Here we go - price rises starting to happen. I have already noticed some food items up as much as 20% and the only significant change is a carbon tax. Sure, businesses are not allowed to blame the carbon tax, but the majority of voters are not stupid.
Impost to lift cost of generation by 43pc
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and it seems that the Qld government has price freezes in place which will cost it $148 million to help protect households. Personally, I think it would have been better not to protect people from the nasties of this tax to help ensure definite removal of Gillard and her unwanted tax at the next election.
Earlier this month, the deputy director of the Australian National University's Climate Change Institute said the Treasury's assumption of a carbon price of $29 a tonne in 2015-16 was "unrealistic in the extreme".
.ACMA did find against Jones in relation to a complaint over his statement on March 15 last year that "human beings produce 0.001 per cent of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere", saying "there was no evidence that reasonable efforts had been taken to ensure that it was reasonably supportable as being accurate", as was required under the code
I also find it rather interesting that we have one level of government directly taxing the activities of another. I though that wasn't supposed to happen?
...I also find it rather interesting that we have one level of government directly taxing the activities of another. I though that wasn't supposed to happen?
IF there are any undisclosed details left for tomorrow's carbon tax announcement, taxpayers can be sure Australia's dirtiest secret, that the government is one of Australia's largest, growing greenhouse gas emitters, won't be included.
SUBSIDIES for rooftop solar panels will cost consumers about $2.3 billion over the next year as the combination of a federal government solar subsidy program and state government feed-in tariffs add about $140 a year to household power bills.
The entire point of a carbon tax, in theory at least, is that you no longer need any other mechanisms to bring about a reduction in emissions. That is, it relies on the "invisible hand" principle to force change.
The notion that we have any other form of government incentive to reduce emissions is in itself an admission that the carbon tax is not expected to work.
Interesting piece on the coast of renewable subsidies outside the carbon tax.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...-harder-than-tax/story-fn59niix-1226397210436
IIRC, these schemes combined resulted in an implied carbon price of around $9 per tonne with the carbon tax obviously on top of that.
Perhaps now, it's worked out to be more.
Rubbish tips put councils on hit list for carbon tax
RATEPAYERS in the local councils of Bendigo, Geelong, Hume and Wyndham face higher costs because of the carbon tax on rubbish tips, the Gillard government has revealed.
The latest carbon tax list, released yesterday, also showed that just 294 companies and councils are slated to pay the $23-per-tonne carbon tax starting on July 1 - well below the roughly 500 originally forecast.
Darren Fuzzard, director presentation and assets at the City of Greater Bendigo, said the carbon tax would cost the council at least $1.2 million - which equalled approximately a 1.7 per cent increase in rates.
''If you're talking about headaches, it's been very difficult for us to understand our situation,'' he said.
City of Greater Geelong general manager corporate services, Jeff Wall, said the council had budgeted in 2012-13 about $380,000 for its carbon tax liability stemming from waste.
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/national/r...-carbon-tax-20120615-20fon.html#ixzz1y6HA1eq3
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