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NZ should remove GST on meat and veggies
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When you talk about a targeted subsidy, the farmers would receive this regardless of if their product is sold in NZ or overseas? Or would there be some apportionment of subsidy based on how much is sold locally?
I would make sure it was NZ production into the NZ market.
No produce heading offshore would get subsidised.
Since NZ produces way more food than we consume, how would that work in practice? Are there models for this in other countries we could follow?
The grower/farmer would have to declare where the produce was going.
I'm not sure how much of this is already done, for traceability reasons, but some is done.
Ah yes. Presumably there would be records of exports and records of sales to local retailers (as well as records to e.g. places that can foods), there must currently be enough information recorded to know where food ends up. So probably isn't that much overhead to have this process.
Makes sense.