14 Aug 2023

Labour's GST promise prompts near universal opposition from economists

From Checkpoint, 5:32 pm on 14 August 2023

Labour's promise to axe GST off fruit and veg has prompted near universal opposition from economists and tax specialists, consensus which they say demonstrates just how dumb the policy is.

RNZ yesterday asked both the Prime Minister and Finance Minister if they could name a single economist in support of the idea, they could not.

So our deputy political editor Craig McCulloch started making some calls.

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