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Shares of tobacco manufacturer declined by 4% to 1% following media reports suggested that Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council might increase consider hiking the GST applicable on cigarettes and ...

Budget was cancelled, documents from the National Treasury and SARS reveal what the government had in store for taxpayers.

Godongwana will deliver his first budget of the Government of National Unity (GNU) and against the backdrop of US President ...

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana faces mounting pressure as he presents his first budget for the Government of National ...

While sin tax faces another increase as per usual, parties are nervous that Godongwana will hit South Africans with a higher ...

Britain will investigate the long-term effects of vaping on children as young as eight in a decade-long study of their health ...

POLITICS - As Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana prepares to deliver his first budget speech under the government of national ...

TAX Justice South Africa said that Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana must resist the temptation to impose unsustainable ‘sin ...

JOHANNESBURG - Sin tax is a levy placed on certain products that are not necessarily essential for daily survival, but has an ...