sugar tax
Budget 2024: Small-scale growers will bear the brunt of a sugar tax increase
As Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana presents his 2024 Budget Speech to Parliament this week, SA Canegrowers is calling on National Treasury to prioritise measures to aid economic recovery and job retention. After what has been a trying five-year period for the sugar industry, an increase in the Health Promotion[...]
Sugar crisis: SA Canegrowers Association calls for decrease to sugar tax to save local industry recovery
As Minister Mboweni prepares to deliver his Budget Speech on Wednesday, 24 February 2021 in an economy with record unemployment, the South African Cane Growers Association (SA Canegrowers) call for an immediate decrease to the health promotion levy (HPL) or sugar tax to save the recovery of the local[...]