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Shoppers hope VAT cut helps; but others say govt should remove VAT on food
A little more than two weeks ahead of the government’s planned 50 percent value-added tax (VAT) cut on unprepared food items, ...
Briefly on MSN1h
Fikile Mbalula Defends VAT Increase, SA Annoyed As SG Says Cutting Ministerial Perks Won’t Help
Fikile Mbalula stated that cutting ministerial perks would not have saved enough to fund the country’s R2.7 trillion budget, ...
The South African on MSN30m
Budget Speech 2025: Electricity price hike, VAT increase cripples Mzansi
With VAT and electricity going up, South Africans will dig deep into their pockets to make end meets in the coming weeks and months.
Fitch Thinks S.Africa Will Struggle to Stabilise Debt as Projected in Budget
"The budget has narrowed the gap between our projections for the fiscal deficit and those of the government, but we remain less optimistic that general government debt is stabilising, with Fitch's ...
Daily Maverick on MSN24m
DA, EFF hit back at Godongwana’s Budget 2025 for failure to address SA’s jobs crisis
MPs on Friday had sharp words for Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana on the contentious 0.5 percentage point hike in the VAT ...
Posthaste: Canadian dollar slides, Mexican peso glides as 'Canada more exposed to tariff extortion'
The Canadian dollar is taking it harder on the chin than the Mexican peso even though the two countries are both squarely in ...