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Cut VAT, trim the state and help the poor - Polity
Few things undermine economic growth as profoundly as excessive taxation and ineffective government spending. This is a palpable reality in South Africa.
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Cut waste, not personal income – IRR
Finance minister Enoch Godongwana’s proposal to increase Value-Added Tax (VAT) and income tax by bracket-creep has been met with overwhelming opposition for ...
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Cyril’s ‘pie in the sky’ aspirations - Biznews
17 June 2022 - South Africa needs a more ‘activist’ state, President Ramaphosa told a media briefing last week.
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DA energy policy is politically correct but economically irrational - Politicsweb
28 February 2022 - It is reassuring to know that Kevin Mileham, shadow minister of mineral resources and energy in the Democratic Alliance (DA), is not opposed ...
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DA’s minimum wage stance: Smart politics or risky move? – Ivo Vegter - Biznews
The DA’s position on the national minimum wage has prompted predictable outrage from the left.
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Dealing with SA’s problems ‘must involve repurposing the state and its priorities’ - Biznews
24 February 2021 - This afternoon, Finance Minister Tito Mboweni will deliver a Budget that has taken on greater-than-usual significance. For the past few ...
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Despite economic woes there is still place for optimism – Katzenellenbogen - Biznews
There is an intense and growing national anxiety about the country’s future.
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Digging ourselves out the ditch using spoons – Ivo Vegter - Biznews
15 February 2022 - On one hand, President Cyril Ramaphosa said government does not create jobs; business does. Days later, he waxes lyrical about the ...
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Does the ‘free market’ lead to public sector corruption? Of course not - Automotive Business Review
In 2020, Buddy Wells, a musician and MMT-enthusiast, wrote an article that, in broad terms, argues that South Africa’s pursuit of ‘neoliberal’ free-market ...
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Ebrahim Patel – ‘highly activist’ and therein lies the danger to SA economy - Biznews
26 May 2021 - Many countries have trade and industry ministers that either have commercial experience or, at least, have some understanding of business. Around ...
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