The government has scrapped a plan to use the fuel levy instead of e-tolls to pay for the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP) due to the recent sharp increase in fuel prices. Moneyweb Fuel e-tolls
The government has scrapped a plan to use the fuel levy instead of e-tolls to pay for the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project due to the recent sharp increase in fuel prices. Read: Sanral appoints DBSA to oversee award of R17.4bn cancelled tenders Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula confirmed this on Thursday, adding that a final decision on the future of e-tolls will be announced when Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana delivers the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement in October or before then.
Temporary fuel levy relief will be withdrawn from August The fuel price, among other factors, affected the government’s decision on using the fuel levy “to do away with [e-tolls on] GFIP”. “So we are not taking that route. We are looking at various options in terms of e-tolls, which we will finalise before the MTBPS. That is where we are with the e-tolls,” he said.