South Africa - Taxes on goods and services

Taxes on goods and services (current LCU)

The value for Taxes on goods and services (current LCU) in South Africa was 508,441,000,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 47 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 508,441,000,000 in 2019 and a minimum value of 780,000,000 in 1972.

Definition: Taxes on goods and services include general sales and turnover or value added taxes, selective excises on goods, selective taxes on services, taxes on the use of goods or property, taxes on extraction and production of minerals, and profits of fiscal monopolies.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

Year Value
1972 780,000,000
1973 893,000,000
1974 912,000,000
1975 1,184,000,000
1976 1,476,000,000
1977 1,688,000,000
1978 2,301,000,000
1979 2,856,000,000
1980 3,609,000,000
1981 4,379,000,000
1982 5,575,000,000
1983 6,582,000,000
1984 8,924,000,000
1985 10,872,000,000
1986 12,020,000,000
1987 14,618,000,000
1988 18,715,000,000
1989 24,575,000,000
1990 26,796,000,000
1991 29,293,000,000
1992 29,579,000,000
1993 39,530,000,000
1994 45,017,000,000
1995 50,576,000,000
1996 56,721,000,000
1997 64,087,300,000
1998 70,319,200,000
1999 77,485,300,000
2000 84,249,400,000
2001 93,027,000,000
2002 104,511,000,000
2003 119,780,000,000
2004 144,337,000,000
2005 166,582,000,000
2006 190,829,000,000
2007 215,851,000,000
2008 220,765,000,000
2009 218,183,000,000
2010 272,097,000,000
2011 283,126,000,000
2012 316,613,000,000
2013 347,430,000,000
2014 392,191,000,000
2015 437,366,000,000
2016 454,726,000,000
2017 439,926,000,000
2018 477,635,000,000
2019 508,441,000,000

Taxes on goods and services (% of revenue)

Taxes on goods and services (% of revenue) in South Africa was 30.87 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 47 years was 38.43 in 1994, while its lowest value was 17.83 in 1974.

Definition: Taxes on goods and services include general sales and turnover or value added taxes, selective excises on goods, selective taxes on services, taxes on the use of goods or property, taxes on extraction and production of minerals, and profits of fiscal monopolies.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

See also:

Year Value
1972 23.67
1973 21.34
1974 17.83
1975 19.77
1976 22.13
1977 22.21
1978 25.69
1979 26.53
1980 25.07
1981 27.31
1982 29.04
1983 30.26
1984 33.71
1985 32.82
1986 31.83
1987 33.93
1988 34.70
1989 33.91
1990 34.88
1991 34.08
1992 33.30
1993 37.28
1994 38.43
1995 36.77
1996 35.09
1997 35.57
1998 35.07
1999 34.60
2000 34.53
2001 33.10
2002 33.71
2003 35.29
2004 36.19
2005 35.19
2006 34.43
2007 33.68
2008 31.35
2009 31.51
2010 35.15
2011 33.10
2012 34.09
2013 33.15
2014 33.09
2015 33.98
2016 33.32
2017 30.33
2018 31.29
2019 30.87

Taxes on goods and services (% value added of industry and services)

Taxes on goods and services (% value added of industry and services) in South Africa was 10.31 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 47 years was 11.26 in 2015, while its lowest value was 4.20 in 1974.

Definition: Taxes on goods and services include general sales and turnover or value added taxes, selective excises on goods, selective taxes on services, taxes on the use of goods or property, taxes on extraction and production of minerals, and profits of fiscal monopolies.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files, and World Bank and OECD value added estimates.

See also:

Year Value
1972 5.45
1973 5.00
1974 4.20
1975 4.79
1976 5.25
1977 5.46
1978 6.48
1979 6.69
1980 6.32
1981 6.65
1982 7.49
1983 7.60
1984 8.88
1985 9.44
1986 8.90
1987 9.31
1988 10.05
1989 11.03
1990 10.32
1991 9.78
1992 8.66
1993 9.21
1994 9.33
1995 9.10
1996 9.07
1997 9.23
1998 9.34
1999 9.40
2000 8.95
2001 8.93
2002 8.60
2003 8.98
2004 9.83
2005 10.23
2006 10.50
2007 10.45
2008 9.55
2009 8.74
2010 9.94
2011 9.54
2012 10.00
2013 10.14
2014 10.74
2015 11.26
2016 10.89
2017 9.85
2018 10.17
2019 10.31

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance