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

Abstract 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...

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Published in:	Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
Main Authors:	Timothy J. Landrigan, Deborah A. Kerr, Satvinder S. Dhaliwal, Victoria Savage, Christina M. Pollard
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier 2017-12-01
Subjects:	welfare food cost tax food stress income
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.12714