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Re:Australia Is Quitting Coal in Record Time Thanks to Tesla by nivenkos on Monday April 10, 2023 @01:49AM (#35509536)
It's not really a subsidy, just you don't pay income tax on it as salary sacrifice.

Ideally there's be no income tax or VAT at all, and we'd tax wealth/land/property instead so this would be a non-issue.

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Re:Australia Is Quitting Coal in Record Time Thanks to Tesla by gorby91 on Monday April 10, 2023 @06:11AM (#35510740)
Money being collected and then paid back is not required for the government to be subsidising something. It is sufficient that's the revenue collection be foregone.
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Re:Australia Is Quitting Coal in Record Time Thanks to Tesla by TheCoelacanth on Monday April 10, 2023 @10:35AM (#35512831)
If you pay income tax on everything else, then a carveout for a specific item is a subsidy.
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