BUDGET 2026/27: NATIONAL TREASURY CALLS FOR TAX POLICY TIPS

BUDGET 2026/27: NATIONAL TREASURY CALLS FOR TAX POLICY TIPS

• 21 January 2026
• National Treasury
• SA Legal Academy

Throughout Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s tenure, National Treasury has issued an annual pre-Budget media statement calling for ‘tips’ from members of the public. The 2023 statement included a list of key issues, which has been the pattern ever since.

This being the second time such a call has been made under a Government of National Unity (GNU), a comparison of the 2025/26 and 2026/27 lists seemed appropriate. Interestingly, there have been changes to two items:

The list of key issues on which ‘tips’ are now invited includes ‘tax policies’, whereas ‘tax revenue’ featured in last year’s list as well as in pre-GNU lists for South Africa’s 2024/25 and 2023/24 Budgets.

This year’s list also replaces ‘energy funding solutions’ with ‘energy and water investments’ – a welcome step, especially given that the 2023/24 and 2024/25 lists featured ‘managing the energy crisis’.

Long-standing issues featured in this year’s list and each year since 2023 are:

• addressing a large budget deficit
• debt sustainability
• government spending priorities
• municipal finances
• stabilising state-owned entity finances, and
• ‘any other economy-related topics’.

This is noting that Budget allocations aim to ‘strike a balance between growing the economy and supporting the vulnerable amid limited resources’.

The Minister is scheduled to table the 2026/27 Budget and deliver his speech on 25 February 2026.

• 2026 media statement
• 2025 statement
• 2024 statement
• 2023 statement
• 2022 statement

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