SACPblackStar.jpg South African Communist Party Statement, 14 January 2016 Newly Promulgated Tax Law Amendment Act The South African Communist Party (SACP) has noted the promulgation into law, of the Tax Laws Amendment Act and the Tax Administration Laws Amendment Act of 2015. Among others, this means that all the retirement reforms that the National Treasury has been pushing will come into effect on 1 March 2016. The SACP is concerned about the process that was followed with far-reaching implications for social dialogue in our country. There must be extensive consultation, including reasonable time and commitment by social actors, in this case mainly the government and labour, to persuade each other. The National Economic Development and Labour Council, Nedlac, was created for this purpose. Provident funds, like all retirement funds, are hard-earned workers' wages. Control over workers funds rests primarily with workers. Anyone who wants to participate in the management of workers' funds must do so following agreement with them. Measures that take away the right of workers to exercise their democratic control over their own funds will erode their rights. Already, the entire wealth produced by workers is appropriated by big capital through exploitation. They have no say over it whatsoever, which is why both workplace workers' and the broader socialist struggle remain fundamental toward resolving this injustice. The President and our government - in this case the National Treasury - must not take workers' voice lightly, even if this is proclaimed to be in their best interests! Issued by the SACP Contact: Alex Mohubetswane Mashilo, National Spokesperson, 082 920 0308 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
