
Daily Investor: Nicholas Woode-Smith on tax reform (6 February 2025)
Nicholas Woode-Smith was featured in Daily Investor on South Africa’s narrow taxbase.
Nicholas Woode-Smith was featured in Daily Investor on South Africa’s narrow taxbase.
Implementation of the NHI will require the biggest extraction and extortion of tax from our fragile base in our country’s history.
Equality of rights is a regime of individual liberty while equality of results requires regimentation and the eradication of liberty.
Each rand taken from a taxpayer is one rand less they have to spend on goods and services they value.
In SA, the failure of central planning is made worse by corruption, but the corruption itself is not the core of the problem.
David Ansara was featured in Polity on the Free Market Foundation’s reaction to the inadequate levels of austerity evident in the 2023 medium-term budget policy statement.
The finance minister’s sense of fiscal responsibility is welcome, but wholly insufficient given the scale of the crisis.
As we battle with a state that is running out of funds – but not out of things to spend the funds on – we must have a through conversation about what rights are and what they are not.
Some of us warned that with our high, structural unemployment rate, the government would not be able to get rid of this grant once it was introduced.
The corporatist state is the biggest threat to individual liberty that has emerged since the collapse of the Soviet Union.