Removing the Australian tax exemption on healthy food adds food stress to families vulnerable to poor nutrition.

OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of changing the Australian Goods and Services Tax (GST) on household food stress, which occurs when >25% of disposable income needs to be spent on food. METHODS: Weekly healthy meal plan costs for average-income (AI), low-income (LI) and welfare-dependent (WDI)...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Landrigan, T., Kerr, Deborah, Dhaliwal, S., Savage, V., Pollard, C.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/58391