Jane Smith: NZ representative on The Global Farmer Roundtable says that farming communities are not in favour of emissions tax

The Government has recently released a tax plan that will require farmers to pay an emmisions tax a by 2025 under He Waka Eke Noa.

A subset of farmers and farming groups, including Federated Farmers, don't support this plan.

Award-winning Otago farmer and New Zealand's representative on The Global Farmer Roundtable, Jane Smith, is also not in favour of this tax plan. She observed that pricing emissions was not an effective solution, and would do more harm than good for the environment.

"It's a travesty that we're essentially going to be subsidising farmers to not produce food. I'll just repeat that, we're going to be subsidising farmers and taxing farmers at the same time, which again, is nonsensical."

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