Big Breaks for Companies, Few Benefits for Citizens
- Washington 100Reporters 2014.
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The article shows that South Africa’s Diamond Export Levy Act offers companies trading in diamonds generous tax breaks if they sell stones locally, in a bid to build a home grown industry for cutting and polishing stones. But most diamonds sold on the South African market to gain this tax break appear to be exported abroad, still uncut – the opposite of what the exemption was designed to achieve.
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