Budget Speech
Pravin Gordhan announced that sin tax on cigarettes will increase by 60c to R10.92 per packet of 20 cigarettes. Last year the Tobacco Institute of South Africa (TISA) estimated that 8 billion smuggled cigarettes were smoked in South Africa costing the government R12bn in lost taxes. (http://bit.ly/13nJwVT, http://bit.ly/141Du8Y)
This week’s theme: In the news
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