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Here are the biggest bombshells in the Budget – including taxpayers getting R2 billion in tax relief

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Here are the biggest bombshells in the Budget – including taxpayers getting R2 billion in tax relief

As its debt burden grows at an alarming rate, government plans to slash its own spending...

Helena Wasserman, Business Insider SA Feb 26, 2020, 02:01 PM

You’ll soon pay 13c more for every plastic bag – with proposals to tax all single-use plastic and straws

You’ll soon pay 13c more for every plastic bag – with proposals to tax all single-use plastic and straws

National Treasury is considering a tax on all single-use plastics, including straws.

James de Villiers, Business Insider SA Feb 26, 2020, 02:30 PM

You’ll soon pay 25c more tax per litre of fuel – here’s how fuel tax has increased from 2008

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You’ll soon pay 25c more tax per litre of fuel – here’s how fuel tax has increased from 2008

National Treasury said a new paper will be released on the possible restructure of the...

James de Villiers, Business Insider SA Feb 26, 2020, 03:07 PM

There’s a plan for etolls, but Treasury says it can’t release it

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There’s a plan for etolls, but Treasury says it can’t release it

Officials have repeatedly missed their own deadlines to find a solution to the tolling...

James de Villiers, Business Insider SA Feb 26, 2020, 02:25 PM

More than 50% of your cigarette price now goes to tax, national treasury says – and more than 20% of liquor

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More than 50% of your cigarette price now goes to tax, national treasury says – and more than 20% of liquor

Treasury will soon start to tax e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products.

James de Villiers, Business Insider SA Feb 26, 2020, 02:20 PM

Apple's budget iPhone XR was the most popular phone in the world in 2019, figures suggest

Apple's budget iPhone XR was the most popular phone in the world in 2019, figures suggest

People really love cheaper iPhones.

Charlie Wood, Business Insider US Feb 26, 2020, 05:13 PM

Meet Saudi Arabia's first female DJ who is a TV host and former dentist

Meet Saudi Arabia's first female DJ who is a TV host and former dentist

Cosmicat hosts her own TV show on the Middle East's biggest TV network. She DJs to crowds...

Bill Bostock, Business Insider US Feb 26, 2020, 05:10 PM

Iran says it won't quarantine any towns or cities, despite recording the most coronavirus deaths outside of China

Iran says it won't quarantine any towns or cities, despite recording the most coronavirus deaths outside of China

Iran said two people died from the coronavirus the same day it discovered its first case,...

Bill Bostock, Business Insider US Feb 26, 2020, 04:07 PM

Elon Musk responded to a long-running fan joke that he has a World War I-era fighter pilot doppelganger

Elon Musk responded to a long-running fan joke that he has a World War I-era fighter pilot doppelganger

Musk responded: "full disclosure, I'm actually a 3000-year-old vampire."

Isobel Asher Hamilton, Business Insider US Feb 26, 2020, 04:07 PM

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