FFS leave GST alone Chippy

[king1]

And that is an education issue, not a cost one. It's like the idiots who buy bottled water instead of a filter system. Some people will just not be changed. But lots will, especially if we educate, starting in schools. And the trend towards plant based foods is not going away...

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Can't answer that, rarely buy bags of spuds. Occasionally buy a single one, but really I prefer kumara...

So if this week kumera were $4.99 a kilo, then next week GST comes off.  You go back to the same supermarket but rather than $4.24 (the price it should be after GST is removed)  the kumera are $5.49 a kg.  Did you save the GST?

all other things being equal, most definitely YES - but as you mention earlier, other factors like supply issues and natural disasters affect market prices, all the time to be honest, so expecting the price for some items to be the same week on week is illogical... The reality is a kilo of Kumera on that day in your scenario would have been 6.30 ish if it was not for the GST free.

You cannot assert that the GST free bit doesn't work and use unrelated market movements due to other factors as the the reason...