Sugar Tax

Health advocacy group calls for sugar tax to be doubled to fund fight against Covid-19

SUTHENTIRA GOVENDER “If the National Treasury doubled the health promotion levy, it could net the government around R2bn to help fund the fight against Covid-19 in the short term” Mbalati said the estimate is based on current consumption…

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Minister of finance Tito Mboweni presents the medium-term budget policy statement in the National Assembly on October 30 2019.Picture: ESA ALEXANDER

SA CANE GROWERS ASSOCIATION

27 FEB 2020

Sugar industry urges Tito to drop tax

By BEKEZELA PHAKATHI Finance minister Tito Mboweni has been urged to ditch the controversial sugar tax which was introduced in 2018 amid concerns that it will wipe out SA’s sugar industry. The industry is reeling from the effects of the…

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SOUTH AFRICA

9 NOV 2017

Sugar tax all set for Parliament approval

By Linda Ensor Parliament’s finance committee has adopted bills which provide for the introduction of a health promotion levy (the sugar tax) as well as amending the tax exemption for income earned by South Africans working abroad. The…

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