Minister Godongwana’s move to increase the VAT is an attack on the marginalised majority

Community organisation, amandla.mobi, is disappointed and concerned that Finance Minister Godongwana has continued with his aggressive move to ‘increase the VAT rate by half-a percentage point in 2025/26, and by another half-a-percentage point in the following year’. Lessons from the past show that increasing the VAT is not an effective solution to raising enough revenue, […]