this is the first time in South Africa's 31 years of democracy that the budget speech was postponed. The disagreement within ...

South Africans reject the 0.5% VAT hike, as the GNU faces its biggest budget battle yet. The post Budget Speech 2025: VAT ...

The findings of several tax commissions have suggested that zero-rated items are not an adequate way to reduce the impact of ...

With VAT and electricity going up, South Africans will dig deep into their pockets to make end meets in the coming weeks and ...

Budget Speech 2025 sees VAT increase announced . Godongwana has announced that VAT, currently at 15%, will increase by half a percentage point in 2025/26 and another half a percen ...

Value-added-tax (VAT) will increase by 0.5%, with the government needing to cover a R60 billion budget shortfall. Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana said another 0.5% increase will then be introduced ...

The last time the government increased VAT was in 2018 by 1% from 14%. Des Kruger, consultant at Webber Wentzel says that if ...

JOHANNESBURG - While the Democratic Alliance (DA) has claimed it's rejected the value-added tax (VAT) increase because it ...

Finance minister Enoch Godongwana will deliver his speech at 14h00. This is where you can watch, and what to expect.

The current inflation rate is 3.2%. The higher-than-inflation social grant increases are intended to help cushion grant ...

Discover how South African experts are reacting to the 2025 Budget Speech, highlighting concerns over VAT increases, youth ...

The Finance Committees from the National Assembly and NCOP were engaging Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana on Friday about ...