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TO THE HONOURABLE THE SPEAKER AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES This petition of concerned citizens of Australia draws to the attention of the House: The discriminatory nature and inconsistency of the Ministerial Ruling of 2010 by the Hon Jenny Macklin MP, the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs that pensioners who installed household solar panels for domestic power supply and who have some excess power available for return to the grid must have the value of the feed-in power assessed as income for the purposes of determining the Commonwealth pension payable, leading to an effective tax of 50% on the value of the feed-in power payment for those pensioners on a part-pension. This Ruling conflicts with ATO tax ruling that such non-commercial solar systems are not considered to be installed for the purpose of generating income and payment received from the energy supplier is not taxable. We therefore ask the House to request the Hon Jenny Macklin MP, the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs to reverse this Ruling to conform with the ATO ruling and to assist those pensioners who have installed solar systems in good faith in accordance with Government promotion. |
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