The South African Cane Growers’ Association (SA Canegrowers) is calling on Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana to reverse the decision to institute an increase in the Health Promotion Levy (HPL/sugar tax) in the Draft Rates and Monetary Amounts and Amendment of Revenue Laws Bill.
This followed Godongwana’s Medium-Term Budget-Policy Statement earlier this month. The main objective of the sugar tax, as stipulated by South Africa’s HPL policy,