The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) today is submitting a dossier packed with practical suggestions to help the Ministers in the Economic Cluste...
*Where is the revised IRP? * ** OUTA is concerned about the delay in the publication of the IRP for public comment, given Minister Radebe’s commitme...
*Premier Makhura agrees with OUTA: e-tolls have failed.* ** OUTA welcomes the acknowledgment by Gauteng Premier David Makhura in his None [1]*State of...
* *SANRAL report indicates e-toll debt is hard to collect* * It also means that SANRAL is likely to require increased funding from an already over-str...
* *E-toll update: Legal challenge is slowly progressing* * On one side, batches of text messages with debt collection warnings are repeatedly sent in ...
* *E-toll operator earns 74% of total e-toll income** * * This is a clear indication of how irrational the scheme has become and what makes matters wo...
* *OUTA bars 55 SANRAL e-toll cases to value of R2 million* * In these cases brought against OUTA’s contributing supporters, SANRAL failed to follow l...
* *Gloves are off as OUTA files e-toll court papers* * Effectively, this becomes the “test case” which will highlight why OUTA believe the Gauteng e-t...
* *OUTA calls off test case with SANRAL to advance public's fight to end e-tolls* * “We are tired of the delays which appear to have arisen through th...
* *SANRAL’s e-toll default judgment is misleading and dangerous* * From the outset, it is important to note the matter which SANRAL is crowing about i...
* *SANRAL’s Default Judgement is deceptive and not a precedent* * This default judgment against a company in liquidation does not delve into the merit...
* *Sincere action absent by Makhura over failed e-tolls* * More revealing was the Premier’s statement “We can’t build roads and only later inform citi...
* *SANRAL’s decision on e-toll criminal charges whilst OUTA test case unfolds is wrong* * In addition, SANRAL plans to obtain default judgments agains...
* *Gauteng freeways inflated by R9,6bn: Ministers urged to investigate* * At the time, OUTA also conducted a high level costing exercise of the GFIP p...
* *Three years of e-toll failure* * The graph gives a timeline of SANRAL’s e-toll revenue levels. In April 2012, SANRAL argued in court that they woul...
* *SANRAL misleads SCOPA on their true financial situation* * SANRAL responded that the law (PFMA) does not simply allow them to write off such debt a...
* *SANRAL outsourcing internal audit unacceptable* * "We find it highly irregular and unprofessional of a state owned entity to outsource what ought t...
* *OUTA to fight for rational energy plan* * The latter has been six years in the making and four years late, and comes at a time when profound questi...
* *OUTA commends SCOPA for hard reaction to SANRAL* * OUTA has repeatedly expressed concern and disgust at SANRAL’s lack of financial management disci...
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