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Outa urges businesses to stop paying e-toll bills

SANRAL says it will continue to collect e-toll revenues from vehicles until the end of December, despite Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s announcement last year that the scheme will be scrapped.

Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse CEO, Wayne Duvenage says businesses should stop paying as this will force government to implement the decision to scrap e-tolls. Duvenage said, “there are only about 10-percent of users still paying, mainly corporates.”

“Those businesses must not fear [the] government. If anybody wants to put them under pressure. The government departments are not even paying… government made a decision to scrap it. Stop paying, because you made this decision

Source: eNCA

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