Here’s how South Africa could introduce new ‘driving’ taxes

[BusinessTech]

Here’s how South Africa could introduce new ‘driving’ taxes

According to a recent SACN report, South Africa's current road use charges do not reflect the actual marginal costs of drivers using the road.

 

[Lupus]

Another tax... And once again it's not for the poor only private vehicle owners. Also the reasoning is this
environmental costs: local noise and air and aesthetic pollution (i.e. despoiled landscapes);

accident costs: the costs of injuries and fatalities to individuals and property from road accidents, which are particularly high in South Africa;

congestion costs: overcrowded roads increase journey times; and

road maintenance costs: vehicles cause physical degradation of and damage to roads.

One of those can be fixed by making it compulsory for third party insurance at least, two of those could be fixed by actually having decent, cheap, safe public transport and the last one... We are already paying it you morons it's the fuel levy and the once a year licence on my car.
Don't you think we are already taxed to hell and gone?

 

[Zoomzoom]

You can make figures and stats say anything you darn well please. Especially if you want money.

 

[Lupus]

You can make figures and stats say anything you darn well please. Especially if you want money.

But there is just no more money to take. The middle class is dwindling

 

[supersunbird]

They can think about those things when we have a good public transport system (a much expanded, higher capacity, Gautrain?) that covers a lot of the combined 3 Gauteng metros.

 

[Hemi300c]

We stole all the money now YOU must pay it back

 

[Swa]

All I really read here is a bunch of waffle saying "we want you to pay us more moneys".

 

[Zoomzoom]

But there is just no more money to take. The middle class is dwindling

yes obviously