Organisations outraged about sugar tax hike

While Agri SA welcomes Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s prudent approach to the 2022 Budget for the most part, the industry body is concerned about a number of announcements that it believes will adversely affect the agricultural sector and its ability to create jobs.

For example, the above-inflation increases in excise taxes will impact on the wine, tobacco and sugar industries’ ability to recover from what had been turbulent times the last two years.