South Africa: Jobs Campaign - Tax On Books Is a Tax On Learning, Knowledge and Literacy

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Today I led a group of DA Youth activists to the Treasury where we handed over a memorandum to representatives of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan to request him to implement a zero rating of VAT on books.

In 2010 the DA Youth handed over a memorandum to this effect to the Chairperson of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, who responded favorably at the time. However, two years later we still see no movement on this proposal.

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