# Cosatu has warned that legal challenges to the proposed VAT increase could destabilise the country’s tax system. Parliamentary coordinator Matthew Parks emphasised the risk to fiscal stability. While COSATU opposes the 0.5-percentage point VAT hike set for 1 May, Parks says he supports alternative revenue options such as wealth taxes and higher corporate taxes to ease the burden on workers:
COSATU warns VAT hike legal challenges could disrupt tax framework [SOUND]
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