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You cannot tax an industry to extinction
Tobacco is also subject to additional taxation beyond the value-added tax, which is charged on all products except for a select few.
30 April 2026
Tobacco is also subject to additional taxation beyond the value-added tax, which is charged on all products except for a select few.
JSEC is the best policy, grounded in the agency of every individual…
Do not regulate the process, and do not promise that this will solve unemployment.
Whether these governments listen is another matter altogether.
Increased oil prices will cause knock-on effects in South Africa, increasing the cost of living and raising inflation.
Are they fostering dependency, or are they empowering citizens to improve their circumstances?
Faced with this bureaucratic gauntlet, countless informal traders will simply disappear deeper into the shadows, avoiding registration and operating beyond the reach of regulation and taxation.
That conceit has failed wherever it has been tried.
The illicit market in South Africa is already possibly the biggest in the world and has created an unhealthy situation.
The FMF was featured in News24 on its joint report on B-BBEE with the Solidarity Research Institute, which found that the policy has costed the South African economy at least R5 trillion.