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ANA reports that the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) said on Tuesday that newly appointed Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene should ensure that the increase in value added tax (VAT) announced in the 2018 budget last week was not implemented.
Samwu general secretary Simon Mathe welcomed the reappointment and return of Nene as Finance Minister (he was fired from that post by former President Jacob Zuma in 2015) and said first on his agenda should be ensuring that the VAT increase from 14% to 15% was not implemented. “The working poor just do not have the extra money and as such are unable to catch up with the forever rising cost of living. We also join calls for the expansion of zero rated VAT items, this expansion should include the daily needs of South Africans." Mathe urged Nene to work together with new Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Zweli Mkhize to ensure that the needs of municipalities were prioritised and that challenges facing municipalities, including management issues, failure to pay workers’ salaries on time, corruption and maladministration, were addressed. He added that Nene should resist the temptation of pre-empting the outcomes of salary and wage negotiations.
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