The ANC is reviving its proposal for an additional tax on the super wealthy to fund the basic income grant (BIG).
“BIG can be regarded as a mechanism to promote equity and thus a wealth tax can be a mechanism through which revenues can be raised to fund a BIG,” reads a proposal presented at the commission dealing with economic transformation at the governing party’s national policy conference in Nasrec this weekend...
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