# Economist Dawie Roodt says increasing the value-added tax by 0.5-percentage points is no longer necessary, given that the South African Revenue Service has collected nearly ten-billion-rand more than originally estimated. The proposed VAT increase is a major stumbling block in Finance minister Enoch Godongwana’s national budget, which will be voted on in Parliament today. Roodt says Sars has been quite effective recently in getting personal income taxpayers into the net:
Economist says the proposed VAT increase is no longer necessary [SOUND]
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