encouraged by growth forecasts and ongoing development? He's on another planet!! Someone please take him down to Sandilands and have a proper mental evaluation done on him please...before he impacts the wellfare of this country any more than he already has!!

As far as speaking with them, there have been numerous 'meetings' with them, they don't want to listen, it's a one way conversation, absolutely none of our concerns have been addressed, or even given a clear answer as to how it will be handled. They are going to jam it down our throats whether we like it or not and our country will go into a complete tailspin and further recession. It's less than 4 months away and we have been given no information or specs as to how we are going to link up systems with there tech department, what types of reporting is required...nothing...we are talking...we are asking...they just keep saying the information will be forthcoming. Completely worthless and useless, and if this is how they are going to 'roll out' some massive tax plan with little to no information or concern, how do we expect it to be actually governed once it is in place. ZERO confidence in anything they are doing or saying at this point with respect to having productive discussions and dissemination of information.

Total agreement there...maybe not the tenth part...but phase it in...start it say 1% and every couple months up it another percentage points...it will also help the businesses with high and pricey stock levels work through inventory and balance all the new tax on their merchandise, instead of one huge WHACK.

We've done pretty darn well doing things totally above board and legal...AND paying all our bills...but I don't know...getting pretty darn rough out there...may need to look at 'cutting a few corners' or shutting it down altogether.

Something smells awfully fishy there!!

They need to ask the potcake chairman how much money he and his various 'enterprises' owe BEC...last I heard it was over 300,000. So to paraphrase the first poster on this comments section...go ahead and piss off the white man who pays his bills...but let's let the black brother slide and get some free power. One of these days, chances are you will be going to Mr. Roberts to beg for a packing boy position...*sigh*

Idiot

We are already trimming staff through normal attrition...not laying them off, but as they quit or get fired for whatever reason, we are not replacing them with another employee. Super Value's price increases have nothing to do with VAT...YET...so brace yourselves. Between the business license increases...which are extortionate, plus the new customs processing fee introduced last year, costs have gone up everywhere. Government says they were going to be trying to phase out business licenses in conjunction with VAT...as well as lower the duty rates...so what do they do, before VAT gets implemented, they jack the business license fees up sky high, and little by little they are increasing duty on items, so when the time comes for the VAT duty price drop, in actuality they are just going to drop to their previous levels of a few months ago...brace yourselves folks, VAT will cause the prices to soar...don't kid yourself into thinking otherwise.

It's not free and clear...to be free and clear all property taxes must be paid on the property before you get good title...if they prove the previous owner did not pay, your claim on that property is not valid!! If your lawyer signed off on the paperwork without doing the due diligence and research on the title then your lawyer should be brought up before the courts for putting you in a legal jeoperdy of sorts.