### Rather than increasing taxes, the focus should be on strengthening Sars's capacity to combat tax evasion and recover the more than R11bn lost annually to illegal alcohol trade
12 March 2025 - 04:41 By SIBANI MNGADI
Even in presenting the grimmest budget statements, successive ministers of finance have all found a moment of lightheartedness when they announced the increases in alcohol excise tax, or the “Sin Taxes”, as former minister Trevor Manuel popularised them...