Reasons To Disagree
Really, including KFC, Pizza and McD? What about a $30 healthy salad at a waterfront restaurant. What about caviar? Food makes up a significant portion of all industry turnover. The more expensive food you buy, the more GST you pay... Removing GST would be complicated and costly, and any savings would be eroded by business compliance costs. Family tax rebates, benefit increases and income tax thresholds are much easier and less costly to implement and will address the issue of poor people not being able to afford to buy food. Not practicle! Expensive food decreases wastage.
Increase tax rebates for low income earners.
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Reasons To Agree
GST should be removed on basic food items but not on luxuary food items A tax is a tax is a tax! It's 90% theft - it should all be reduced! Better still - combine ALL taxation so that we can see exactly what the gummint steals from us to buy themselves power. Removing GST off certain foods is a good idea. Basic food items, fruit, vegetables, uncooked meats, milk (not flavoured milk) eggs, butter/marg flour, bread
It should be increased on processed products, convenience foods, those with high sugar or salt content (based on recommended daily intake)and those with excessive packaging.
On healthy foods only, to stop fast food addicts, and to promote eating fruit and vegies. our tax system is unfair to the extreme. GST removes 12.5% of our income. We have a tax on income plus a tax on spending so we are being taxed twice on the same item.Our tax system removes about 65-70% of our income when all elective and non- elective taxes are taken into account -try it on a sample $100.00 figure. remove the income proportion first, then because GST is applied on the expectation of us spending our entire income at some point. remove that 12.5% from the first total. then remove your petrol tax, ACC (it is a tax because it is applied by the tax dept). You should get a figure between 65-68& of your income. even the lower figure is too high.
BASIC FOOD ITEMS SUCH AS BREAD,FLOUR,MILK,BUTTER,CHEESE,UNPROCESSED MEAT,RAW FRUIT,RAW VEGES. Removing foods on Vegetables would be great. Easier for farmers and cheaper for health system to save thousands of dollars.
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