The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) says it doubts claims by road authorities that 300 000 people had taken up the e-toll discount dispensation of 60 percent.
 
OUTA chairperson, Wayne Duvenage, says: “Anything short of R2.5 billion collected or committed for collection, will still mean the system will have only pushed compliance up to roughly 50 percent.”
 
Duvenage argues that this in itself will be seen as a significant failure for the user pays scheme, adding that international evidence shows that these schemes fail when compliance drops below 85-80 percent.
 
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