{"id":9090,"date":"2020-04-08T08:41:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T05:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=9090"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:58","slug":"e-cigarettes-plastic-straws-next-in-south-africas-tax-sights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/04\/08\/e-cigarettes-plastic-straws-next-in-south-africas-tax-sights\/","title":{"rendered":"E-Cigarettes, Plastic Straws Next in South Africa\u2019s Tax Sights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The South African government may start taxing e-cigarettes and plastic straws as it ramps up green and health taxes to boost revenue and change behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to doubling a levy on plastic bags from April, the government will consult on extending this charge to all single-use plastics for retail consumption including straws, utensils and packaging, from 2021, the National Treasury said in the budget review tabled in Cape Town on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government will start taxing heated tobacco products immediately and intends to introduce a levy on electronic cigarettes next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGlobally,\u00a0policymakers are looking at regulating and taxing these products due to concerns about their health effect,\u201d the Treasury said. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-02-26\/e-cigarettes-plastic-straws-next-in-south-africa-s-tax-sights\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African government may start taxing e-cigarettes and plastic straws as it ramps up green and health taxes to boost revenue and change behavior. In addition to doubling a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}