MTN will adjust its prices inline with the Treasury’s increase in VAT from 14% to 15% on 1 April 2018.<\/p>\n
It joins Vodacom<\/a><\/strong> in informing customers that its prices will increase next month.<\/p>\n “We will communicate the detail of the change directly, to all our customers, before changes are implemented.”<\/p>\n Former finance minister Malusi Gigaba announced the change to VAT<\/a><\/strong> on 21 Feburary as part of his budget speech.<\/p>\n Gigaba said South Africa had not adjusted VAT since 1993, and that it was low compared to the country’s peers.<\/p>\n MTN will adjust its prices inline with the country’s VAT increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":152615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[42,12285,23978],"class_list":["post-251213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-mtn","tag-national-treasury","tag-value-added-tax-vat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251217,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251213\/revisions\/251217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0South Africans to pay VAT for online PC software<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"