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Chris Patterson

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No more SOE bailouts, IRR says, as Auditor-General exposes deep financial problems

24 Oct 2024 - by Chris Patterson
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The Minister of Public Enterprises told Parliament last year that the taxpayer had forked out more than R270 billion in bailouts for state-owned entities (SOEs) over the past five years.

South Africa’s logistics utility accounted for most of the allocations over that five-year period.

In a presentation to Parliament this week, the Auditor-General’s head of audit, Bongani Ngoma, laid bare the state of irregular, fruitless, and wasteful expenditure by government departments and SOEs over the past five years.

Fruitless and wasteful expenditure, as well as irregular expenditure, respectively came to R1.4bn and R50.65bn for national government, and to R2.08bn and R69.35bn for SOEs.

South Africans are tired of paying taxes and getting bad or no services in return.

The Institute of Race Relations’ solution to providing much-needed relief lies in its Blueprint for Growth: Slash Waste, Cut Taxes report, a solution that would simultaneously help the GNU improve its effectiveness and boost the country’s chances of lifting the economic growth rate and generating investment and jobs.

The report proposes that government cut the VAT rate from the current 15% to 11.5%, which would put roughly R100bn back into the pockets of South Africans, allowing them to spend it as they saw fit.

Slashing waste and cutting taxes is one way that the GNU can restore trust between citizens and government. South Africans deserve a government that respects every rand in the public purse.

Read the Blueprint for Growth: Slash Waste, Cut Taxes report here

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