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  • FILE: Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana delivers his maiden Medium-term Budget Policy Statement in Parliament on 11 November 2021. Image: GCIS.

    Calls growing for finance minister not to hike excise tax on alcohol

    National Liquor Traders Association convener, Lucky Ntima, has called on government to give businesses in the sector some relief.

    123 days ago
  • FILE: Saftu members make their way to Parliament in Cape Town during a demonstration. Picture: Graig-Lee Smith/Eyewitness News

    Saftu to lead protest action in CT on Wednesday ahead of Budget Speech

    Saftu is pushing for a basic income grant, among other demands.

    123 days ago
  • FILE: Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana delivers his maiden Medium-term Budget Policy Statement in Parliament on 11 November 2021. Image: GCIS.

    Godongwana's Budget expected to 'put some money back into people's pockets'

    Economists are expecting a low-key budget that sticks to the line that Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana spelled out in his Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement in November.

    124 days ago
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    Alcohol organisation warns against hiking excise tax during Budget Speech

    The National Liquor Traders Organisation has called on Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana not to raise excise tax when he presents his Budget Speech on Wednesday.

    125 days ago
  • FILE: Distributors prepare to send out beer after the ban on alcohol sales was lifted with the country moving to lockdown level 2 on 18 August 2020. Picture: Veronica Mokhoali/Eyewitness News

    SA alcohol industry urges govt to use sound judgement on excise duties

    VinPro is appealing to Treasury for no more excessive tax hikes and the SA Liquor Brand Owners Association (Salba) said that increasing excise at rates above inflation would continue to provide a competitive advantage to illicit traders at the cost of the legal market and society at large.

    127 days ago
  • FILE: SAB beer crates are being gathered as the Fenyane Bottle store prepares for alcohol sales to resume on 18 August 2020. Alcohol will be permitted for on-site consumption in licensed establishments only up until 10pm. Vosloorus, Ekuerhuleni. Picture: Sthembiso Zulu/Eyewitness News

    Beer Association calls for intervention to keep COVID-battered industry alive

    The Beer Association wants Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana to ensure the future sustainability and profitability of the industry.

    128 days ago
  • FILE: Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana delivers his maiden Medium-term Budget Policy Statement in Parliament on 11 November 2021. Image: GCIS.

    How should govt spend taxpayers' money? Treasury wants your ideas

    Minister Enoch Godongwana has called for ideas or suggestions on what government should be spending on, how it can address the large budget deficit, new sources of tax revenues and other budget relevant tips.

    155 days ago
  • The Cape Town International Convention Centre. Picture: CTICC Facebook page.

    CTICC to be inspected for use as possible venue for Sona, Budget speech

    Parliamentary spokesperson Moloto Mothapo said that while the investigation into the fire at Parliament continued, arrangements were now being made for the State of the Nation Address (Sona) next month.

    169 days ago
  • FILE: EFF MPs are thrown out during Pravin Gordhan's Public Enterprises budget vote in 2019. Picture: EWN YouTube.

    16 EFF MPs who disrupted Gordhan’s 2019 Budget Speech have salaries docked

    The incident took place in July 2019. Opposition lawmakers rushed to protect Gordhan from the advancing red berets, who were later removed from the chamber.

    199 days ago
  • FILE: An e-tolls gantry on the highway in Gauteng. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    Mbalula says finance minister to make e-tolls announcement in February

    Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula made the claim on Friday while discussing the state of South Africa’s transport system following major problems in the rail sector.

    211 days ago
  • Finance Minister Tito Mboweni delivers his Budget speech in Parliament on 24 February 2021. Picture: GCIS.

    FFC questions whether Mboweni's Budget is in line with the Constitution

    FFC deputy chair Michael Sachs said this could be the first time that a Budget had been tabled, which envisaged a reversal in achieving what was set out in the Bill of Rights.

    479 days ago
  • FILE: Finance Minister Tito Mboweni delivers his Medium-Term Budget Policy Speech in Parliament on 28 October 2020 in Cape Town. Picture: GCIS.

    Budget doesn't support economic growth, says PBO

    The PBO’s Seeraj Mohamed said that the spending cuts the government was planning over the next three years did not – as Treasury has argued - strike a balance between immediate support for the economy and shoring up the country’s public finances.

    479 days ago
  • FILE: Unemployed builders, tilers and plumbers hold signs seeking jobs on the side of the road in Johannesburg in November 2019. Picture: AFP

    Black Sash calls for R350 COVID-19 grant to be extended by a year

    Finance Minister Tito Mboweni confirmed this week that provision had been made by Treasury to extend the R350 grant for unemployed people until April this year.

    484 days ago
  • FILE: The South African Informal Traders Alliance visited the Khayelitsha taxi rank. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/EWN

    Informal traders want govt promises of support to township business realised

    On Wednesday, Finance Minister Tito Mboweni announced the multi-billion rand investment to help hundreds of small businesses in townships and rural areas.

    484 days ago
  • Finance Minister Tito Mboweni delivers his Budget speech in Parliament on 24 February 2021. Picture: GCIS.

    A dud Budget Speech: Black Sash not pleased with low increase on social grants

    The organisation has criticised the low increase in social grants.

    484 days ago
  • Finance Minister Tito Mboweni delivers his Budget speech in Parliament on 24 February 2021. Picture: GCIS.

    Cosatu: Mboweni failed to acknowledge govt debt to workers in Budget Speech

    The trade union federation told journalists at a media briefing on Thursday following its three-day meeting that the ongoing public sector wage dispute is a binding contract that cannot simply be wished away.

    484 days ago
  • Our protest won't change the budget but it's the start of a fight back - Saftu protester

    Saftu members marched to Parliament on Wednesday ahead of Finance Minister Tito Mboweni's Budget speech to protest against inequality and other socio-economic issues. #Saftu #Budget2021

    484 days ago
  • Finance Minister Tito Mboweni delivers his Budget speech in Parliament on 24 February 2021. Picture: GCIS.

    Cosatu slates Mboweni budget as ‘disconnected from reality' and 'pro business'

    Cosatu has criticised what it called Treasury’s failure to speed up economic development in order to create jobs, focus on supporting rural and township economies, and access to services.

    485 days ago
  •  FILE: South African Revenue Service (Sars) Commissioner Edward Kieswetter. Picture: @sarstax/Twitter.

    Sars' Kieswetter not concerned by Treasury not adding new tax collection streams

    Commissioner Kieswetter said that despite there not being substantive tax hikes, there was still wiggle room to improve the efficiency of collection.

    485 days ago
  • FILE: Members of Sasco crowd outside the University of Stellenbosch's admin buildings where they congregated to deliver a memorandum on transformation to the Vice Chancellor. Picture: EWN

    Sasco calls on Minister Mboweni to avail more funds to students

    Sasco was part of several civil organisations that took to the streets on Wednesday, ahead of the minister’s delivery of the 2021 budget speech.

    485 days ago
  • FILE: Treasury Director-General Dondo Mogajane at an inter-ministerial briefing on the coronavirus on 24 March 2020. Picture: @TreasuryRSA/Twitter

    Mogajane: Govt wants to avoid public servant salary cuts at all costs

    National Treasury Director-General Dondo Mogajane said that the economy had to grow and freezing public servants' wages was not enough.

    485 days ago
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