Claim: Australian households will benefit to the tune of $550 a year if the carbon tax is axed.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: The carbon tax expects to raise 25 billion rupees ($535 million) for the financial year 2010–2011.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: Officials estimated that the tax would generate income of 37 billion yen a year for the government and result in a payment of 2,100 yen per year for an average household.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: As of the year 2002, the standard carbon tax rate since 1996 amounts to 100 DKK per tonne of CO 2, equivalent to approximately €13 or US$18.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: The total estimated income from the carbon tax would have been between €3-4.5 billion annually, with 55 percent of profit coming from households and 45 percent coming from businesses.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: The average household pays US$21 towards the tax each year, while the average business pays $94 per year.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: We'll scrap the carbon tax so your family will be $550 a year better off.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Australia’s total greenhouse gas emissions increased by 0.3% in the first six months of the Carbon Tax to December 2012 to 276.5 Mt CO2 equiv, while Australia's gross domestic product grew at a rate of 2.5% per annum.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: The Australian Government would have set a cap on carbon emissions, consistent with longer term goals of reducing Australia’s emissions by 60% compared with 2000 levels by 2050 (Department of Climate Change, 2008, 11).

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: A carbon pricing scheme in Australia, commonly dubbed by its critics as a "carbon tax", was introduced by the Gillard Labor Government in 2011 as the "Clean Energy Act 2011" which came into effect on 1 July 2012.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: The Australian Government said in July 2013 that the carbon tax was a factor in reducing the emissions intensity in the National Electricity Market from 0.92 t of CO2 per MWh to 0.87 in the 11 months following its introduction.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: On 1 July 2012, the Australian Federal government introduced a carbon price of AUD$23 per tonne of emitted CO2-e on selected fossil fuels consumed by major industrial emitters and government bodies such as councils.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Carbon tax support:

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: On 17 July 2014, a report by the Australian National University estimated that the Australian scheme had cut carbon emissions by as much as 17 million tonnes, the biggest annual reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in 24 years of records in 2013 as the carbon tax helped drive a large drop in pollution from the electricity sector.