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VALUE ADDED TAX SUB-COMMITTEE: DURBAN CONSULTATIVE FORUM ON VAT, 05/10/94.

The Value Added Tax Sub-Committee of the Tax Commission is to hold a Consultative Forum on VAT in Durban.

The purpose of the forum is to discuss and obtain more inputs from organisations and interested groups and individuals on the following:

1. The role of VAT as a source of revenue;
2. The zero-rating and exemption of basic foodstuffs and services;
3. The method of identifying and defining items and services as basic necessities for zero-rating;
4. Multiple rates versus single rates of VAT;
5. Means of addressing the regressivity of VAT;
6. Direct and alternative methods of targeting relief;
7. Other issues relating to VAT.

A keynote address will be delivered.

Venue: Deloitte & Touche House
Training Room
4th Floor
2 Devonshire Place
Durban

Date: 17 October 1994

Time: 08:30 - 16:30

RSVP: Zee Cele
Tel: (031) 304 1499
D Mokgatle
Tel: (011) 800 2579
M Delport
Tel: (011) 800 2667, or
Dave Allwright
Tel: (012) 315 5837

Issued by the Tax Commission
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