Treasury faces credibility test after scrapping VAT hike againCoalition politics complicate budget approval and revenue ...

The increase in VAT from 15% to 15.5% was first announced earlier in 2025 as part of government measures to address fiscal ...

South Africa’s National Treasury will scrap a proposed tax increase that threatened to rupture the nation’s coalition ...

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana is set to address the implications of a VAT reversal on South Africa's budget, as economists weigh in on the potential impacts on public service delivery and fiscal ...

It brings to an end a dispute between the two largest parties in South Africa’s government of national unity over the revenue ...

South Africa’s coalition government appears likely to remain intact after the National Treasury abandoned a divisive plan to raise taxes and agreed to revise the budget. The Treasury in February ...

National Treasury's proposed 0.5% Value-Added Tax (VAT) increase is expected to be withdrawn when Finance Minister Enoch ...

South African taxpayers have forked out an estimated R521 billion over the last 15 years to keep State-Owned Enterprises ...

Julius Malema said the budget deadlock could have been resolved much earlier if Godongwana had taken the objections seriously ...

The Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, will soon formalise measures to reverse the highly contested and reviled VAT hike ...

After a fierce public backlash, the National Treasury has scrapped plans to raise VAT on 1 May. Now, the government of ...

Though ‘severely damaged and dented’, it remains possible that the GNU will endure, analyst says. South Africa’s coalition ...