ANN CROTTY: Small is beautiful in this economy
It might still be on a micro level, but privatisation is picking up speed — and therein lies hope for our future
It wasn’t a good week for a provisional taxpayer. My bank account had been gouged by the South African Revenue Service’s demand for a provisional tax payment. In the past I’ve inclined to the view that I’m lucky to have a tax liability. Not so much this year. The surging cost of living seems to have overtaken my earning capacity. And then there’s all the little Eskom-related stuff — the power banks, the dongles, the surge protection plugs, the vrot food.
But off I went to parliament to cover the budget. And amid the screeds of information provided by what is still a top-class National Treasury team, it was difficult not to wonder what the point of this precise balancing of revenue and expenditure was...
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