# The Congress of South African Trade Unions has called on Parliament to exercise its legislative authority and amend the 2025/2026 budget to scrap the value-added tax hike. In his budget speech earlier this month, Finance minister Enoch Godongwana proposed a 0.5 percentage point VAT hike in 2025/2026 and again in 2026/2027. Cosatu’s, Matthew Parks on Tuesday presented the union federation’s submission to Parliament, emphasising that they cannot support tax hikes upon the working class:
Cosatu calls for the scrapping of the proposed VAT hike in the budget [SOUND]
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