“If you do it off fresh fruit and vegetables, or even staple products,” Robertson said in 2022, “then you get into an argument of what’s the difference between beetroot and canned beetroot, and if you want to make a real impact on the lowest income people you wouldn’t cut the tax off fresh beetroot – that’s not what people on low incomes buy.”
Source: thespinoff.co.nz
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