FMF NEWSLETTER 27 February 2019

FMF NEWSLETTER 27 February 2019   
 
ARTICLE of the week  

Government stealth tax to fund ailing Eskom MPIYAKHE DHLAMINI

Officially, for the 2019/20 financial year, government will not be increasing income taxes. The only taxes set to increase are the indirect taxes: fuel levies, excise duties on alcohol and cigarettes, and the new carbon tax coming into effect on 1 June 2019. With these increases government estimates that it will raise an additional R1.2 billion.

Yet, government’s plan is to raise an additional R15 billion in the coming financial year, mostly to fund the R23 billion a year set to be handed over to Eskom over the next three years. So where will the other R13.8 billion in planned increases come from?

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