Labour tax policy: how do you like them (GST-free) apples?

Labour tax policy: how do you like them (GST-free) apples?
Party volunteers hand out fresh apples after Labour announced its election GST policy (Image: BusinessDesk)
Pattrick Smellie
From bread and butter, to better than nothing.Is that too unfair a way to sum up Labour’s announcement of the worst-kept secret of the 2023 election campaign so far?That is, 37 years after introducing a textbook low rate, no exemptions version of GST, Labour will cut GST from the cost of fresh and frozen fruit and vegetables from April 1 next year, if re-elected.Remember where you read it first – in an unusually inspired guess by yours truly in a column a month ago after Labour revealed it had gone a long way down the road to implem...

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