Helen Zille had the twitter community as well as the offline community buzzing this weekend, following a series of tweets where she claimed that all those voting for the ANC were accomplices to corruption and she would lead a Tax Revolt.
The hashtag Tax Revolt or Tax Boycott has left people with divided views.
Zille says that taxpayers will not continue forking up billions to corruption and that if this continues, she was going to be the first to mobilise a tax strike to bring this government to its senses.
Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) says their website states that they have been approached to drive such a move. Outa Chairperson Wayne Duvenage says, “The people that would get hurt the most are the poor and the very people calling for this do not understand the consequences of declined security at border posts and ports and so forth. You cannot manage a country in a full tax revolt.”
I’m waiting to see how many ppl get prosecuted and land in jail in a reasonable amount of time after the Zondo commission. If they do not, just watch me. I will be organising the #TaxRevolt. I have tried the electoral route for years. Voters seem to like voting for corruption. https://t.co/WNvDpPKND1
— Helen Zille (@helenzille) January 26, 2019
The #TaxRevolt is simply another way for entitled white people who dodge tax anyway and keep their money in offshore accounts, to pretend they’ve just started dodging paying their taxes.
We see you acting you haven’t been doing it anyway ?.
— Miss Masombuka (@ElidKNaz) January 28, 2019
Helen Zille is actually saying the poor eat at her behest and therefore need to be punished for voting the ANC. The DA’s black vote will decline this election cause her party still do not understand the plight of poor black people. #TaxRevolt
— Musa Sekese (@SekesM) January 28, 2019
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