AfriForum urges Finance minister to reject ANC’s push for tax increases [SOUND]

# AfriForum urges Finance minister Enoch Godongwana to resist the ANC’s push for tax increases in his budget speech today. The civil rights organisation, along with economists and business leaders, are calling for cuts in government spending rather than tax hikes. AfriForum’s Louis Boshoff calls for downsizing the cabinet, reducing government officials’ salaries, cutting wasteful expenses, and privatising state-owned enterprises to relieve the taxpayers’ burden: