{"id":195649,"date":"2025-04-08T10:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T08:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-central-bank-recommends-zero-taxes-on-dairy-products\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T10:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T08:57:12","slug":"namibia-central-bank-recommends-zero-taxes-on-dairy-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-central-bank-recommends-zero-taxes-on-dairy-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Central Bank Recommends Zero Taxes On Dairy Products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>The Bank of Namibia has suggested subsidies or zero-rated taxes on all milk products to allow Namibian-made dairy products to compete with those imported.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">According to the Bank of Namibia&#8217;s annual report, subsidies or zero taxes on all milk products could put Namibia&#8217;s dairy industry on par with those in neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">&#8220;Namibia is currently at a disadvantage when competing with neighbouring countries&#8217; milk products as the latter&#8217;s products are zero-rated across the board in those&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504070230.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bank of Namibia has suggested subsidies or zero-rated taxes on all milk products to allow Namibian-made dairy products to compete with those imported. According to the Bank of Namibia&#8217;s annual report, subsidies or zero taxes on all milk products could put Namibia&#8217;s dairy industry on par with those in neighbouring countries. &#8220;Namibia is currently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":195650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7089,5934,13366,4706,724,257,7418,7882,254,12062],"class_list":["post-195649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bank","tag-central","tag-dairy","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-products","tag-recommends","tag-south-africa-today","tag-taxes"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195649","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=195649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}