Evaluation of the Government Business Incentives

The South African Government uses a wide range of incentives to encourage firms to act or invest in specific activities or contribute to certain social or economic outcomes. Whereas individual programmes are monitored and, in some cases, regularly evaluated, these evaluations provide a partial assessment of how the system as a whole is working together to support business and benefit society. The purpose of this evaluation is to bring together a consistent set of information across the entire national system of business incentives, identify overlaps and complementarities, and explore how specific programmes and the system as a whole have been structured to achieve government’s wider policy objectives. In doing so, this evaluation assesses whether the system of incentives is working effectively, efficiently and coherently, and makes recommendations on how the system can be improved.