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"Prices Will Start Dropping Next Month," Finance Minister

4 years agoThu, 13 Jun 2019 15:20:56 GMT
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"Prices Will Start Dropping Next Month," Finance Minister

Finance Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube has said that reforms which are being implemented by the government are starting to bear fruit and are going to result in the reduction of prices of commodities starting next month.

This was revealed in a pre-recorded Governors’ Statement released during the 54th Meeting of the Boards of Governors of the African Development Bank and the 45th Annual Meeting of the African Development Fund currently underway at the Sipopo Conference Centre. Ncube said:

The reforms being implemented by Government under the Transitional Stabilisation Programme of October 2018 to 2020, are beginning to show positive developments as the twin deficit challenge of the fiscal and the current account are coming under control.

Government has started realising a budget surplus. On the other hand, with regards to prices, fiscal consolidation measures, reinforced with a tight monetary stance together with liberalisation of the exchange rate are containing inflationary pressures which are expected to slow down in the third quarter of the year.

The minister said that the government restrained expenditure by reducing the wage bill. He also said that there were also measures to improve the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA)’s Tax Management Revenue System which was effective in minimising revenue leakages. He also said that the tax enhancement measures such as the 2% contributed much to the likely reduction of prices.

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