Legislators scrapped proposed taxes levied on basic commodities such as bread and milk. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP

The cost of bread, cooking gas, milk, fishing nets, medical products, fertilisers, mosquito nets and agricultural pest control products will not go up after parliament overturned proposals by the National Treasury that would have seen prices of a host of basic commodities attract taxes. READ MORE...

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