NO TO GRADED TAX INCREASE - MPS

MBABANE – Preliminary statements from Members of Parliament (MPs) are that Finance Minister Martin Dlamini will be on his own when he proposes the increase in Graded Tax.

These are some of the submissions made by MPs on Wednesday during the budget debate as they stated that there was no way they would allow the implementation of Graded Tax from E18 to E60 for the unemployed, especially because the very same minister had said it would be scrapped.

MPs are expected to soon debate the amendment to the Grade Tax Act and proposed increase in user fees, once they are done with passing the budget.
Members of the public reacted with shock to this publication’s report on Tuesday that Graded Tax would not be removed but could go as high as E1 250 for people who earn around E33 000 a month.  Mntfongwaneni MP Mjuluko Dlamini asked Lobamba Lomdzala MP Marwick Khumalo if the Graded Tax issue had even been discussed with the minister by the Finance Committee.

He said there was no way they would even entertain it.
Manzini North MP Jan Sithole said government was barely able to pay the elderly E400, but now it had the audacity to implement a change in Graded Tax.

Meanwhile, the Finance minister said the money had to come from somewhere.  Dlamini said government was not in the business of making profits and wondered where the MPs thought the money would come from.
He said government had no choice but to collect some of the money from taxes. 

The proposed increase in user fees, which are yet to be discussed by the legislators, include increase in civil registration services, liquor licences, trading licences fees and driver’s licence fees among others.
Others have already been implement such as the hike in travel documents and passport fees.

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