New value-added tax exclusions have had no effect on the food baskets of struggling South African households, according to a civil society group.
PMBEJD said most of the VAT panel recommendations were dismissed. In 2018, finance minister Tito Mboweni announced that as of April 1 2019, the government would zero-rate sanitary pads, bread flour and cake flour. “It seemed to us that the Treasury’s response to mitigate the impact of VAT on poorer households by zero-rating a few more foods and nonfood items was not only based on several flawed assumptions on what people eat and how meals are put together but they had also missed the central point raised by civil society and trade unions [which is that] SA households are facing a massive food affordability crisis and require urgent government intervention.
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