You Missed a Golden Opportunity at Payback for Your Solar Incentives Minister: Where the Solar Incentive for Private Residences Falls Down A small tweak to the incentive will result in a ‘payback’ to Government Let’s replace taxpayer cash to Eskom with Taxpayer Electricity to the Grid The recently introduced Solar Incentives in the 2023 Budget …
Dear Minister Godongwana and @TreasuryRSA – THIS is a Valid Suggestion for Solar Incentives: During his State of the Nation Address on 9 February, President Cyril Ramaphosa said that the Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, would reveal a tax incentive related to rooftop solar for households and businesses during the 2023 Budget on 22 February. …
Cash incentives for vaccination could be an effective long-term strategy – here’s how to fund it: In many countries, COVID vaccination has been viewed as a race, with the finishing line being double vaccination of a high proportion of the population. Unfortunately, those countries who were initially successful face the challenge of a runner that …
Boris Johnson wants to pay Stem teachers a £3,000 premium – research shows incentives don’t work: The only policy announcement Boris Johnson made in his Conservative party conference speech, as many have pointed out, was a £3,000 “levelling-up premium” for teachers. The idea, to entice maths, physics, chemistry and computing teachers to take jobs in …
COVID vaccines: we need to find out which incentives actually work: The most powerful tool for combating COVID is not a drug or a vaccine, but a method. A randomised trial is the best way to discover what works and what doesn’t. This method underlies much of the progress in modern medicine, including the development …