The transport industry is among those targeted by government as it uses “additional environmental taxes” to make up the shortfall in revenue and to clean up the country’s act. Fuel is being taxed by an additional 25.5 cents a litre as part of government’s strategy to apply “appropriate pricing” to encourage industry to manage scarce resources “more efficiently and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through appropriate pricing of energy,” finance minister Pravin Gordhan told Parliament.
Transport industry targeted by ‘green tax’
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