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Stakeholders in the beef industry have described Government’s decision to scrap the 15 percent value added tax (VAT) on live animal sales as a positive step towards promoting organised marketing and boosting farmers’ disposable incomes.<\/p>\n
This comes as Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube recently announced the suspension of the tax, saying Government had observed that 85 percent of live animals were sourced from smallholder farmers most of whom are…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Stakeholders in the beef industry have described Government’s decision to scrap the 15 percent value added tax (VAT) on live animal sales as a positive step towards promoting organised marketing and boosting farmers’ disposable incomes. This comes as Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube recently announced the suspension of the tax, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,5086,257,5105,29664,254,7419,19587,8328,4686,421],"class_list":["post-177646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cattle","tag-news","tag-sales","tag-scrapping","tag-south-africa-today","tag-true","tag-unlock","tag-vat","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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