Push to scrap backpacker tax to address farm labour shortage

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Influential billionaire Anthony Pratt has called for the backpacker tax to be scrapped to fix farm labour shortages.Mr Pratt told the National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) Congress in Canberra yesterday the 15 per cent tax on working holidaymakers should be eliminated, as the peak body ramps up its push for a new agriculture visa to source […]

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