One municipality regularly exceeds its water allocation limit yet it received top marks for water management from the water ...

Discover the challenges faced by South Africa’s Land Rights Management Unit as it struggles to deliver justice to the country’s most vulnerable communities ...

Senators announced plans to vote on a separate bill that would allow Washington, D.C., to maintain its 2025 budget instead of ...

The Senate passed a six-month spending bill on Friday, hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic ...

The Finance Minister, Enoch Godongwana, has been briefing the standing committee on appropriations on the budget.

After days of Democratic agonizing, the Senate voted to keep federal funds flowing through Sept. 30 just hours before a ...

Life is a game of pragmatic trade-offs; it was thus a realistic compromise by the Minister of Finance and his budget team to agree to raise the VAT by only 0. 5% in the financial year 2025/26 and by ...

With limited options available, the government has placed reliance on increased VAT to raise additional revenue.

The VAT hike wasn’t the only controversial tax proposal in the 2025 Budget 2.0. The National Treasury has announced its ...

On Wednesday (12 March), the National Treasury proposed hiking value-added tax by 1 percentage point by mid-2026, increasing ...

The government of South Africa has increased the carbon offset allowance in its carbon tax, even as it extended the utilisation period for use of older projects until 2028, it announced in a revised ...