South Africa to raise VAT to 15% from April 2018

28 February 2018

From 1 April 2018, South Africa will increase its VAT rate from 14% to 15%.

This is the first VAT increase to be implemented in the country for 25 years and it is hoped that it will help to decrease the countries growing deficit, which increased to 4.3% during 2017.

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