Energy bill rebate extended: small business included (March 2025 Federal Budget Update)

Published on 26 March 2025 by Drew Pflaum
Categories: Government Budgets

The Government will extend its energy bill rebate until the end of 2025 by providing a further two instalments of $75 (for a total of an additional $150) for households and small businesses.

From 1 July 2025, Mr Albanese said, households and around one million small businesses will see another $150 in rebates “automatically applied to their electricity bills in quarterly instalments, on top of the previous rebates already being rolled out”. Treasury estimates this will directly reduce inflation by 0.5 of a percentage point in 2025, and reduce household bills by 7.5% on average. The extra energy bill rebates will cost $1.8 billion.