This is a news story about a man who installed 35 solar panels on his home.
http://www.anonews.co/man-still-has-to-pay-tax-for-energy-he-generates-himself/This man pays electricity taxes on every watt of energy his house consumes, even though he is self sufficient & produces more energy than he consumes from the power grid.
Should he pay taxes for a service rendered by the state which he does not utilize?
Crypto taxes are a hot topic in this section. This news story could in the future apply to crypto mining. Imagine if someone bought enough solar panels to power their bitcoin mining operation. And the state charged them for every kilowatt hour of energy their bitcoin miners consume, even though their operation is fully powered independently outside of state generated or regulated electrical grids.
This news story reminds me of this case where uganda tried to tax its citizens for using social media websites like twitter and facebook:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4614685.0What are peoples thoughts on this?
Which country is that? The government must be very stupid to be doing such a thing. In my country if youre using energy that is not being supplied by the government to you, you wouldnt have to pay any more of energy bills or taxes to the government, but you will also have to go to the government to report that you no longer make use of their energy supply cause if you dont it will continue to increase and when you decide to use it later, you will pay those bills that have gathered there.