Taxes Are Too High

The cost of living in South Africa is becoming unbearable. At the end of each month, families have less and less to spend on basic necessities. People urgently need relief.

More and more of the hard-earned money of citizens gets taken by an inefficient and corrupt government. The levels of wasteful spending of your taxes proves that the governing ANC doesn't care about how they use your tax money. Government abuse robs you of public services and puts money into the hands of cronies, cadres, and comrades. Yet the government still wants more!

It is time to cut taxes. Taxes are too high and the government spends the money it collects inefficiently.

IRR research has shown that if the government focuses on overcoming inefficient spending, taxes can be reduced without affecting service delivery or welfare programmes.

The IRR proposes the following:

1. Cut VAT from 15% to 11.5%;
2. Reduce the fuel tax;
3. Reform Capital Gains Tax collection; and
4. End preferential procurement.

Add your voice to our campaign against high taxes and inefficient government spending.

On your behalf, we will approach the Minister of Finance and other senior government officials to demand that taxes be lowered, spent properly, and that the government becomes more efficient.

A bloated and inefficient government is a drag on economic growth – and economic growth is the only way South Africa can escape poverty and become a prosperous society for all who live in it.

The government must act now to put more money back in the pockets of South Africans, who can be counted on to spend it more productively and efficiently than the government ever could.