Backpacker tax increase under attack

By Colin Bettles
Updated February 2 2016 - 7:42am, first published 1:30am
NFF Workforce Productivity Committee Charlie Armstrong says backpackers are critical to ensuring an adequate workforce is available to primary producers.
NFF Workforce Productivity Committee Charlie Armstrong says backpackers are critical to ensuring an adequate workforce is available to primary producers.

FARMING groups are demanding federal Treasurer Scott Morrison back-down on imposing a new backpacker tax increase saying it will erode the agricultural workforce and damage the prosperity of regional communities.

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