The income tax of 33% is unnecessarily high for what we get back as citizens.
I’m not against high tax – if it is to the benefit of society.
What I would advocate for is not even a lowering of tax, but redistribution.
The unemployed in eSwatini can be found in all tinkhundla.
Why can’t we take 10% of the 33% and send it to the inkhundla they belong too?
Meaning that the local structure has the monies necessary to develop the community.
Our schools, our clinics, local markets and farmers wouldn’t have to go to ministerial offices and deal with corrupt and arrogant officials when upgrades, supplies, tractors or medication are needed.
The community is the one that will be directly giving the purse to locally elected governors who will then identify and fund the appropriate projects.
It would also help clamp down on the pillaging of funds from treasury and ESRA that continues unabated in this country.
Such a system would ensure that emaSwati who don’t live near a royal residence can benefit from infrastructure projects.
Members of Parliament would no longer have to worry about their constituents being victimised by the executive.
It would also create employment in rural areas, the youth would have access to capital, and rest assured that whatever they are taxed will be reinvested into their community.
EmaSwati are educated and unemployed. There is a lot that can be done in all of these tinkhundla.
These are communes that deserve better than what the current government is giving us.
As it is, we don’t see where our taxes are going other than into the bottomless stomach of the mouth that is never full.
Soliloquys 
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