In the Finance Minister’s 9 051-word 2018 Budget Speech of 21 February, the word ‘customs’ appears only three times. Once in reference to the revenue proposals, and twice in the confusing sentence “Government will also take steps to implement the customs modernisation programme currently implemented by Sars, to give effect to the new customs and excise legislation passed in 2014.” If you are not confused, you do not have all the facts.
