The SA Sugar Association is pleased with the government's decision not to increase the sugar tax for now.
The tax was intended to reduce the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, but it also required beverage producers to reformulate the product recipes and replace cane sugar with alternative or artificial sweeteners.Sasa executive director Trix Trikam said: Ahead of Godongwana's speech, sugar industry players were on high alert as they anticipated a possible sugar tax hike.
It's a meaningless con like plastic bag tax, tyre tax, carbon tax.. What happens to the money?