What keeps Godongwana awake at night
Finance minister worries about this year’s tax take amid record electricity outages
29 May 2023 - 05:00
Finance minister Enoch Godongwana has expressed worries about this fiscal year’s tax revenue, as record electricity outages combined with operational woes and lower commodity prices threaten to undermine his budgetary commitments.
“The major problem is going to be load-shedding and its impact on growth, and therefore the tax revenues that I collect from companies are going to be less and less...
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