By Amy Musgrave
ActionSA has revealed that Finance Deputy Minister Ashor Sarupen, who is a member of the Democratic Alliance, was involved in the budget process, including the VAT increase.
This follows Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana divulging in a reply to a parliamentary question that both his deputy finance ministers were intimately involved in the entire budgetary process.
“ActionSA can today reveal… 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,” the party said in a statement.
“Yet in recent weeks, the DA has cynically weaponised this very VAT hike in a desperate attempt to salvage its political image and to extract more influence in the GNU.
“Far
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