Is a basic income grant now ‘baked in’?
The challenge facing Treasury is financing a permanent grant while maintaining a commitment to fiscal consolidation.
The challenge facing Treasury is financing a permanent grant while maintaining a commitment to fiscal consolidation.
SA Federation of Trade Unions says a basic income grant of R1 500 a month should be introduced progressively.
Analyses of the implications of extending income support measures in South Africa, including a basic income grant (BIG), have focused on one of three things: how much it will cost, calculations about how […]
A jobseekers’ grant and a caregivers’ grant might be “an acceptable compromise” to a permanent Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant or a basic income grant (BIG), according to a discussion document published […]
South Africa should make the R350-a-month Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant permanent, increase the rate of value-added tax from 15% to 17%, and reform the “distortive” personal income tax system, the Organisation […]
Personal income tax (PIT), value-added tax (VAT) and corporate income tax (CIT) would have to increase by just under 5% to raise R50 billion, or by slightly more than 9% to raise R100bn, […]