{"id":228053,"date":"2018-02-27T09:51:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T07:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=228053"},"modified":"2018-02-27T09:51:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T07:51:13","slug":"you-will-soon-be-taxed-r265-every-time-you-fill-up-at-a-petrol-station-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/energy\/228053\/you-will-soon-be-taxed-r265-every-time-you-fill-up-at-a-petrol-station-in-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"You will soon be taxed R265 every time you fill up at a petrol station in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of his 2018 budget, former finance minister Malusi Gigaba announced a\u00a052 cents per litre increase in the General Fuel and Road Accident Fund levy.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0General Fuel Levy will increase by 22 cents from R3.15 to R3.37\u00a0(7% increase), and the\u00a0RAF Levy will increase by 30 cents from R1.63 to R1.93\u00a0(18% increase).<\/p>\n

According to the\u00a0Automobile Association<\/a> <\/strong>(AA), this increase amounts to\u00a0a total increase of 11% on the current levies from R4.78 to\u00a0R5.30.<\/p>\n

The association said the increases will place an extra burden on all road users, but especially on the poorest of the poor who mostly rely on public transport.<\/p>\n

With fuel prices expected<\/a> <\/strong>to drop in March, BusinessTech looks at how much money you are currently spending on taxes when filling up your tank – based on February’s official prices of R13.90 a litre for petrol and R12.57 for diesel.<\/p>\n

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Car<\/th>\nCost to fill February 2018 (petrol)<\/th>\nCost to fill February 2018 (diesel)<\/th>\nAmount spent on current levies (R4.78)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Hatchback (50 litres)<\/td>\nR695.00<\/td>\nR628.50<\/td>\nR239.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sedan (60 litres)<\/td>\nR834.00<\/td>\nR754.20<\/td>\nR286.80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SUV (75 litres)<\/td>\nR1 042.50<\/td>\nR942.75<\/td>\nR358.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

BusinessTech also looked at how much you will soon be spending on taxes when filling up your tank – based on March’s expected prices of R13.52 for petrol and R12.10, and the new fuel levies of R5.30 to be introduced from 1 April.<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n
Car<\/th>\nExpected cost to fill March 2018 (petrol)<\/th>\nExpected cost to fill March 2018 (diesel)<\/th>\nAmount spent on new levies (R5.30)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Hatchback (50 litres)<\/td>\nR676.00<\/td>\nR605.00<\/td>\nR265.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sedan (60 litres)<\/td>\nR811.20<\/td>\nR726.00<\/td>\nR318.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SUV (75 litres)<\/td>\nR1 014.00<\/td>\nR907.50<\/td>\nR397.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Read: Petrol price set for another big drop next week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BusinessTech looks at how much you will be spending on taxes when filling up your tank come 1 April. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9874],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-228053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228053"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228069,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228053\/revisions\/228069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}