Mboweni: State Bank must operate on business principles

Treasury should publish an annual cost benefit analysis of all the tax incentives as part of the annual budget.

Is the closing of the wage-increase tap about curbing entitlement or quashing reasonable expectations?

Claims that the budget boosts infrastructure spending exposed as false.

They cost the fiscus an estimated R3.8bn in uncollected taxes each year – Naamsa.

Capital investments estimated to have declined 18.4% in 2020.

The Covid Crisis has knocked South Africa's already-teetering economy, forcing government and its citizens to find the means to deal with both the health and economic crises.

Reduction in corporate income tax rate shows government will be giving the private sector room to move.

Country’s gross loan debt expected to increase to R5.2trn by fiscal 2023.

But finance ministers always are.

'I was tempted to ask one of the members of the house how many zeroes there are in a trillion': Finance Minister Tito Mboweni.

Re-costed budgets to be produced in 2022/23.

But government stresses the importance of the 'user-pay policy' to public entities.

Also starts legal processes to recover unwarranted expenditure.

Moneyweb's Simon Brown spoke to Dawie Roodt of Efficient Group, Busisiwe Mdletshe - CEO of BTMT Capital, and Sandile Zulu - President of the Black Business Council, in a special budget 2021 broadcast on SAfm.