Tax & Spend
Tax Shortfall Lumps South Africa With No-Good-News Budget
- Economists see revenue falling 52 billion rand below target
- Transnet is pressuring Treasury to take over part of its debt
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South African Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana is in a bind as he reworks the nation’s budget in the face of lower-than-expected tax revenue and pressure from the ruling party to bolster government services ahead of next year’s crunch elections.
While a commodity boom previously gave Godongwana some breathing space, recent metal price declines and rail constraints have curtailed the mining industry’s income and contribution to state coffers.