
Finance Ministry Confirms DA Complicit in Original 2% VAT Increase Despite Denials
ActionSA can today reveal — through a damning parliamentary reply — that the DA’s Deputy Minister of Finance, Ashor Sarupen, was intimately involved in the budget process, particularly in drafting the original 19 February budget speech which included the deeply unpopular 2 percentage point VAT increase, as well as the subsequent revision to the split 1 percentage point increase, despite their denials.