The substantial fiscal and social implications of tax bracket over-adjustment demand a comprehensive and transparent public discourse.
Tax Bracket Over-inflation: How the treasury is forfeiting R198bn a year
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Lacking Resources?
By Dick ForslundA recent report to South African Cities Network shows how much of incomes households pay in property rates water and electricity supply, and solid waste and sanitation. Low income households pay 10 to 20 percentage points more of their total incomes to...
Cape Town – The Mother City of Inequality
By Dick ForslundThe City of Cape Town is proudly proclaimed in travel brochures as the Mother City – a place of great historical importance, the mother which welcomed a free Nelson Mandela. There is tarnish on this hallowed image – that of a city nibbling away at the...
Threats to the Media – We Brought This On Ourselves
By Helga Jansen-Daugbjerg Society and progressive civil society in particular, must take some of the blame for the state threats to the media. This is not some sensationalistic shock statement meant to upset you into action. In it lies the years of abdication from...