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The Ministry of Finance is considering zero rating value-added tax (VAT) on some essential goods to provide support to low-income families, and improve social grant targeting.<\/em><\/p>\n Finance executive director Michael Humavindu says reviewing VAT could provide a more sustainable way of helping vulnerable households.<\/p>\n “Maybe we need zero rating on some of the VAT goods that are used daily by poorer households instead of giving someone cash. So I think it’s for all of us as Namibians to think as to how do…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The Ministry of Finance is considering zero rating value-added tax (VAT) on some essential goods to provide support to low-income families, and improve social grant targeting. Finance executive director Michael Humavindu says reviewing VAT could provide a more sustainable way of helping vulnerable households. “Maybe we need zero rating on some of the VAT goods […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":206022,"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":[258,256,7828,9524,7210,6451,8240,4357,29927,18822,4706,724,257,254,8328],"class_list":["post-206021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aid","tag-considers","tag-cuts","tag-essential","tag-goods","tag-govt","tag-households","tag-lowincome","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vat"],"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\/206021","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=206021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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