Fast food chicken companies mindful of cost-squeeze on consumers amid rising feed prices

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South Africans will have to wait to see if the rising cost of poultry due to the war in Ukraine will push up their bill when ordering Nando's, KFC or Chicken Licken.

The FairPlay movement, founded in 2016 to oppose the allegedly unfair trade practises harming the local poultry industry, has called for VAT to be scrapped on chicken products.

“Therefore it is the poor who are most affected by price increases in chicken products. FairPlay first called for the zero-rating of particular chicken products in 2018, when VAT increased from 14% to 15%. After presentations by the poultry industry and FairPlay to parliament and the Woolard panel set up to investigate removing VAT from a number of items, to our great regret, chicken was not on the final list.

 

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