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Some reading for the “anti-warmalists” and “climate-change deniers”

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« Reply #175 on: July 09, 2012, 12:17:38 pm »

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Carbon tax cost added to family's funeral bill
Simon Benson The Daily Telegraph July 09, 2012 12:00AM

A GRIEVING family claims that a cemetery slapped them with a $55 carbon tax bill for burying a relative - saying "even the dead don't escape the carbon tax" - just days after the tax was introduced.

The outraged family complained to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, describing it as a "tax on the dying".

Erica Maliki said the Melbourne cemetery told her and two other relatives that a $55 charge would be applied to her father-in-law's burial due to the carbon tax.

The director of the Springvale Cemetery did not return calls despite several attempts to contact management since last Friday.

Climate Change Minister Greg Combet said it would be "reprehensible" if any cemetery took advantage of grieving families by misleading them over funeral expenses.

It comes as three companies were reprimanded by the consumer watchdog for cashing in on the carbon tax.

The ACCC said that it was investigating solar panel suppliers

Polaris Solar and ACT Renewable Energy for providing false information on the cost impacts of the tax, while bakery chain Brumby's was caught advising outlets to raise prices and blame the carbon tax.

While cemeteries are not liable entities under the carbon tax, the funeral industry has previously warned of indirect price rises for both burials as well as cremations through higher energy prices and councils passing on their carbon tax costs.

But it said the impacts should not be immediate nor any greater than any other business.

Ms Maliki, a mother and community worker, said her father-in-law died on June 30 - a day before the carbon tax came into operation - but was buried early last week.

She said when her grieving family was discussing with the cemetery management the cost of a $600 retaining wall for the plot, which she claimed was never installed, they were informed that the price per plot had risen by $55 due to the tax.

"I thought to myself what carbon could possibly be used by putting a man in a grave," Ms Maliki said.

"All they did was put the dirt back in. How can they charge us a carbon tax for burying someone?

"It is a tax for dying."

Son Zaid Maliki said he was shocked when the receptionist at the cemetery informed the family that the cost of his father's burial had gone up because of the tax.

He said the receptionist told his sister-in-law, " ... even the dead don't escape the carbon tax". "We are pretty upset ... that comment was a kick in the guts," he said.

The ACCC said it would be willing to investigate the Malikis' claims. The issue has also been brought to the attention of several Labor MPs.

The ACCC warned businesses generally that while they had a right to set their own prices, any claims made in relation to carbon tax must be "truthful and have a reasonable basis".

An ACCC spokesman confirmed that any questionable claims about carbon tax increases did not necessarily have to be made in writing or included on a bill and even verbal claims would be investigated.

NSW Funeral Directors Association spokesman John Kaus said: "We don't really see there will be a real impact on the funeral industry. We don't envisage an impact greater than any other business entity."

Opposition environment spokesman Greg Hunt called for an immediate exemption for funerals.

"The carbon tax is not just a farce but an insult. It is a tax that now follows you to the grave," Mr Hunt said yesterday.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/carbon-tax-cost-added-to-familys-funeral-bill/story-e6freuy9-1226420545281
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