South African Toll Roads

[Mike Stenson (RIP)]

Remember, postal summonses are not legal documents and you need not react to them.

Henk Bolhuis [Ex-Deputy Chief Traffic Officer of Pretoria]

TAX

I think, and I am sure that many of you are the same, that the tolls are a disgrace, both the extortionate toll fees themselves and also the widely published fact that we are expected to pay up to R18 BILLION over the next 10 years just to collect the toll fees.

I wanted to share the clarity of thought in this mail and agree that I will not be installing anything on my car.

They are not going to have easy access to my bank account, they say they want a debit order - forget it.

Send me a bill (by registered mail) every time - and I will pay it just as fast as I pay the speeding fines that arrive by normal post (which I also ignore).

Together we can make this whole thing fail - as it should.

Let the toll gates stay there, not working, as monuments to people power.

Let's call this the start of the SA Awakening, look what the normal people are achieving in North Africa with the Arab Awakening.

I hope this goes around at least a billion times.

Taxes and Open Road Toll Fees

People should not install the transponders but still use the highways and force the government to issue accounts and summonses to all

motorists until such time they drop the prices.

The government will be forced to send out millions of accounts every month and they don't have the manpower to do it.

This is the best and easiest way to boycott the system.

What is the government going to do about motorists from other neighboring

countries that don't have these transponders?

South Africans are too complacent and its time we fight back.

WE have paid for these roads.

Now they are also proposing a 1% tax to fund the SABC

Circulate this to all your friends!!!!!!!!

Has anyone thought just how much tax we are already paying?

a. 35% on your salary

b. 14% on everything you buy (bar fresh produce) and services rendered.

c. Carbon tax if you buy a new car (besides the 14% VAT you have to pay)

d. Tax on the fuel you put in your car to run it.

e. Toll on our roads – and for some it is going to come to a whopper of 10% of your salary (If you earn R10 000.00 a R1 000 would go toward tolling if you migrate between PTA and JHB every day.)

Bully to try and pacify me with the idea that I can claim it back from my income tax!!!

I have to fork out the money first. Going on holiday to DBN? Remember to save up your R1000.00 for tolling.

To say the least - For every R10.00 you earn, the government is already taking approx R6.00 and still they want more. Are you happy with the R4.00 you are getting?

NICE!!!!!

When are we going to get up and do something about it? Where is

all the money going to?

It is definitely not being spent on what it should be - our hospitals are in a state of disrepair, our schools in shambles, our roads full of potholes, our water contaminated, sewers not working, left in the dark because Eskom failed to do their upgrades, the poor are poorer still, municipalities on the brink of collapse, and so the list goes on.

Heard about the youth day celebration that cost R100 million?

Mmmm... did you pay for it?

Oh yes sir/madam you did! R100 million that could have paid for a couple of things our country needed more.

And to put the numbers in perspective:

The next time you hear an SA politician use the word 'billion'in a casual manner, think about whether you wanted the 'politicians' spending YOUR tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of its press releases:

A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

B.. A billion minutes ago Jesus was born in Bethlehem.

C. A billion Rand ago was only 27 hours and 12 minutes at the rate our SA government is squandering it

(over a billion rand a day??!!)

Building Permit Tax

Cigarette Tax

Corporation Tax

Income Tax

Value Added Tax

Fishing License Tax

Food License Tax

Fuel License Tax

Petrol/Diesel Tax

Hunting License Tax

Luxury Tax

Property Tax

Service charge taxes

Capital gains Tax

Social Security Tax

Securities Transfer Tax

Road Usage Tax

Local Tax

Vehicle License Registration Tax

Vehicle Sales Tax

Worker's Compensation Tax

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?

Hardly any of these taxes existed 20 years ago...

And our nation was one of the most prosperous in Africa.

We had absolutely no national debt...

We had the largest middle class in Africa and Mum stayed home to raise the kids.

What happened ?

ANSWER :

Look at the Government.....and who is 'running' the country....

INTO THE GROUND - on YOUR and MY 'billions'!!!

We hope this goes around at least a billion times.

[henniek]

Nazir Alli , chief of Sanril resighned 7 May 2012 - I wonder why ? kind of funny , isn't it

[SandyB]

What ??   ducking before the paw paw  hits the fan ,, this deal  was definitely suspect ..

[Adriaan Van Rooyen]

next thing they are going to introduce is wife tax.......

[henniek]

VERY INTERESTING READING ..Australia newspaper
Friday 20 April 2012
SANRAL - From an Australian Newspaper on South Africa E-Tolls
"The deal between Sanral and Kapsch of Austria, the e-tolling operating company is not with the corporate entity, but with Kapsch Sweden.
Kapsch Sweden used to be SAAB Aerospace, a 50% shareholder in a company called SANIP. British Aerospace held the other 50%. SANIP is alleged to be the payment vehicle used by SAAB and BAE to pay the alleged bribes of around R100Million in the Arms Deal saga to ensure that the Gripen fighter was chosen.
The names Hlongwane, Modise, ANC, Zuma, Shaik figure prominently in the list of alleged recipients.
So why Kapsch Sweden, not the corporate entity? I leave it to your imagination.
How much? According to the corporate structure used to implement e-tolling in SA, about 80c of each rand of profit can be repatriated to Austria via Sweden. Gauteng alone expects to generate about R350Million a month in toll fees.
Assuming a very conservative 10% profit available to be repatriated, that means about R28Million a month to go overseas"
Posted by ToxiNews at 4/20/2012 12:31:00 PM

[SandyB]

That be the fishy part of the  deal ...   we await and see...