FYI
Hi Hanif
Like you and so many others I to have started a campaign to stop etolls .
Attached is correspondence I have had with Pick & Pay in which they clearly indicate that they do not hold the majority of their customers interests at heart .I am sure that if Raymond Ackerman was still active in the company he would have looked after his client and turned this into a marketing opportunity . I will also be in contact with Cosatu and re quest that their members do not pack etags onto their shelves .
Good luck
From: Mary-Anne Hattingh [mailto:mahattingh@pnp.co.za]
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2013 9:29 AM
To: guykers@telkomsa.net
Subject: E Tolls
Good day,
Thank you for your message and concerns with regards the E Tolls. As mentioned when Sanral first proposed the e-tolling, Pick n Pay made a submission to the business Unity for careful reconsideration and how this would affect the cash-strapped commuters and the effects it may have on transportation costs.
Unfortunately we do not make the policy or set the rules. Pick n Pay is just one of the retailers where users can purchase an e-tag. And our purpose is purely to make it easier for our consumers that wish to purchase an e-tag.
We thank you again for contacting us and for your concern shown on this matter.
Kind regards
Mary – Anne Hattingh
From: guykers@telkomsa.net
To: 'Lopes, Luis' ;CUSTOMERCARE@PNP.CO.ZA
CC:
Sent: 02.10.13 11:31:04
Subject: RE: E Tolls
Hi Cookie
It is disappointing that P&P#s management (and other chains ) is not willing to take etags off the shelf despite you being fully aware of the knock on cost effect on the whole supply chain . As a last resort I will approach the union and request that they do not pack these items onto the shelves .
I request that in the interest of your customers you urgently reconsider stocking these items .
AND THIS........
Remember, postal summonses are not legal documents and you need not react to them.
Henk Bolhuis [Ex-Deputy Chief Traffic Officer of Pretoria]
TAX
I think, and I am sure that many of you are the same, that the tolls are a disgrace, both the extortionate toll fees themselves and also the widely published fact that we are expected to pay up to R18 BILLION over the next 10 years just to collect the toll fees.
I wanted to share the clarity of thought in this mail and agree that I will not be installing anything on my car.
They are not going to have easy access to my bank account, they say they want a debit order - forget it.
Send me a bill (by registered mail) every time - and I will pay it just as fast as I pay the speeding fines that arrive by normal post (which I also ignore).
Together we can make this whole thing fail - as it should.
Let the toll gates stay there, not working, as monuments to people power.
Let's call this the start of the SA Awakening, look what the normal people are achieving in North Africa with the Arab Awakening.
I hope this goes around at least a billion times.
Taxes and Open Road Toll Fees
People should not install the transponders but still use the highways and force the government to issue accounts and summonses to all motorists until such time they drop the prices.
The government will be forced to send out millions of accounts every month and they don't have the manpower to do it.
This is the best and easiest way to boycott the system.
What is the government going to do about motorists from other neighboring countries that don't have these transponders?
South Africans are too complacent and its time we fight back.
WE have paid for these roads.
Now they are also proposing a 1% tax to fund the SABC
Circulate this to all your friends!!!!!!!!
Has anyone thought just how much tax we are already paying?
a. 35% on your salary
b. 14% on everything you buy (bar fresh produce) and services rendered.
c. Carbon tax if you buy a new car (besides the 14% VAT you have to pay)
d. Tax on the fuel you put in your car to run it.
e. Toll on our roads – and for some it is going to come to a whopper of 10% of your salary (If you earn R10 000.00 a R1 000 would go toward tolling if you migrate between PTA and JHB every day.)
Bully to try and pacify me with the idea that I can claim it back from my income tax!!!
I have to fork out the money first. Going on holiday to DBN? Remember to save up your R1000.00 for tolling.
To say the least - For every R10.00 you earn, the government is already taking approx R6.00 and still they want more. Are you happy with the R4.00 you are getting?
NICE!!!!!
When are we going to get up and do something about it? Where is
all the money going to?
It is definitely not being spent on what it should be - our hospitals are in a state of disrepair, our schools in shambles, our roads full of potholes, our water contaminated, sewers not working, left in the dark because Eskom failed to do their upgrades, the poor are poorer still, municipalities on the brink of collapse, and so the list goes on.
Heard about the youth day celebration that cost R100 million?
Mmmm... did you pay for it?
Oh yes sir/madam you did! R100 million that could have paid for a couple of things our country needed more.
And to put the numbers in perspective:
The next time you hear an SA politician use the word 'billion'in a casual manner, think about whether you wanted the 'politicians' spending YOUR tax money.
A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of its press releases:
A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
B.. A billion minutes ago Jesus was born in Bethlehem.
C. A billion Rand ago was only 27 hours and 12 minutes at the rate our SA government is squandering it
(over a billion rand a day??!!)
Building Permit Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporation Tax
Income Tax
Value Added Tax
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel License Tax
Petrol/Diesel Tax
Hunting License Tax
Luxury Tax
Property Tax
Service charge taxes
Capital gains Tax
Social Security Tax
Securities Transfer Tax
Road Usage Tax
Local Tax
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Worker's Compensation Tax
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Hardly any of these taxes existed 20 years ago...
And our nation was one of the most prosperous in Africa.
We had absolutely no national debt...
What happened ?
ANSWER :
Look at the Government.....and who is 'running' the country....
INTO THE GROUND - on YOUR and MY 'billions'!!!
We hope this goes around at least a billion times.
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