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NHI remains uncosted and unaffordable – IRR

South Africans should be deeply alarmed that the National Assembly this week approved the NHI Bill without knowing how much it will cost.

Mounting tax-boycott threat triggered by graft, rising taxes could bring down the government – IRR

3 March 2021 - In a memorandum delivered to the Presidency this morning, the IRR warns that the government is facing a near inevitable tax and investment ...

11 March 2021 - ‘The problem with socialism’, as British prime minister Margaret Thatcher memorably said, ‘is that you eventually run out of other people's ...

Tax hikes will be damaging – IRR

24 February 2021 - A prime issue in today’s budget will be the question of taxes, specifically whether the South African government will demand that taxpayers ...

Withdrawing extra-12% Job Tax a win with a warning – IRR

1 September 2021 - Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu has withdrawn her green paper proposal for a social security plan that would amount to an ...

28 February 2021 - Hier is tien dinge oor Tito Mboweni se begrotingstoespraak wat niemand jou nog gesê het nie.

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 ...

2 February 2022 - ‘Comment: So reports suggest personal income tax and VAT will both increase. We get less and less but have to keep feeding the rapacious, ...

Government deep down a hole, and frantically digging - IRR

25 February 2021 - The finance minister yesterday presented the government's budget for the years ahead. He knows, as do most South Africans, that the country ...

10 March 2021 - Alexander Forbes’s Isaah Mhlanga argues in his column that concerns about the tax burden falling “unfairly” on a narrow group of people are ...