Tax incentives will provide extra meals and cut waste

Proposed tax incentives could see an extra 100 million meals a year donated to those in need. (Erik Anderson/AAP PHOTOS)

A homeless person could have an extra meal every day for more than two years, under proposed tax changes to motivate businesses to donate more food and cut waste.

Foodbank chief executive Brianna Casey says under the current rules, the tax system treats donating food no better than dumping.