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- Title
Australian Residential Solar Feed-in Tariffs: Industry Stimulus or Regressive form of Taxation?
- Authors
Nelson, Tim; Simshauser, Paul; Kelley, Simon
- Abstract
Feed-in Tariffs (FiT) for residential photovoltaic solar technologies are available in most Australian jurisdictions. Financial incentives under FiT are in addition to those provided by the Small-Scale Renewable Energy Scheme which forms part of the national 20% Renewable Energy Target. Little attention has been paid to the welfare impacts of FiT on retail electricity prices and social policy objectives. Our analysis indicates that current FiT are a regressive form of taxation. By providing estimates of household impact by income groupings, we conclude that wealthier households are beneficiaries and the effective taxation rate for low income households is three times higher than that paid by the wealthiest households.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; TAXATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC power systems; SOLAR technology; JURISDICTION; MONETARY incentives; RENEWABLE energy sources
- Publication
Economic Analysis & Policy, 2011, Vol 41, Issue 2, p113
- ISSN
0313-5926
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1016/S0313-5926(11)50015-3