FFS leave GST alone Chippy

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And then you get the situation of landlords not passing their rates deduction onto their tenants, in much the same way as the F&V supermarket scenario.

A far better approach would be to zero tax the lowest income bracket. Simple, focussed and uncorruptable, but I seem to remember someone else suggesting that approach just lately.

They should though and landlords should be made to prove they have dropped it. Besides it would be tax deductable for a landlord anyway wouldn't it?

Just the same as the purchase cost of F&V for supermarkets is tax deductable, it's far too easy for the supplier in both cases to absorb the benefit of GST exclusion without passing it onto to their customers (or tenants).