Thought of the day...

I was having a conversation with someone recently about rainwater tanks - I think it might have been at Midsummer?
There was a thought that the government might then try and charge you for water colelcted in the tanks. I was arguing that as they had invested no money in the infrastructure I didn't think they legally could (not to mention measuring how much you'd collected etc). That said another recent conversation has brought up the far more likely conclusion - they can't charge you for the water you collect, but there is nothing stopping them from taxing the tank itself :( How they'll do this could be interesting though - at the moment they'll only know you have a tank if you claim a rebate. Unless they propose bringing in registration for buying one...

Edit: For the record this was an argument put forward by someone else, i'm not sure how much I agree with it, but it's an interesting conversational piece