The deeply unpopular and failed e-tolls cannot last without taxpayers' money being thrown at the problem, says the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse . It says e-toll collections during the lockdown have dropped to well below the amount needed to manage the scheme.The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse says the reduction in traffic on Gauteng roads because of the lockdown might finally spell the end of e-tolls.
“This is the result of the successful citizen defiance campaign against the unpopular and irrational system. Gauteng’s e-tolls generated approximately R55m a month before the Covid-19 lockdown – just enough to cover ETC’s operating expenses, which meant that virtually nothing was left to offset Sanral’s bond repayments,” he says.
It means that for the first time since the implementation of the scheme, ETC will either have to dig into reserves to pay salaries and other costs, or Sanral will have to put taxpayer money into the scheme to bail it out.
SHUT DOWN this NONSENSICAL e-toll.
Scrap this useless, corrupt system for once and for all. etolls
This guy's talks like a drunkard.