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Originally Posted by cventer
Love to know where all this price rise is from. Is it costing more to get coal to power stations than it did before ?
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Yes this was scheduled as July 1st which is when the carbon tax kicks in. All rates will rise between 16% and sometime over 20% on your bill. I believe it's applied directly to the rates so before GST but I'm not sure about service availability fees and others but it's fair to estimate your next bill at x1.2.
I doubt the rates will go down ever again now it's in place though. The thing is that this is going to affect a lot more products and services. Refrigerated foods come to mind, Wollies/Coles, etc...