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Petrol Slip Fraud?
I just received this e-mail yesterday from Toni Gozza. Normally I don't bother much with scare mails but this one caught my attention.
ALWAYS ask for a cash slip when filling up your vehicle's tank , even if paying with cash and even if you intend on throwing the slip away, because....
- The pump attendants take these unclaimed cash slips from the cash register attendant and sell these same cash slips to taxi drivers
- The taxi drivers then add these cash slips to their own and so claim a bigger subsidy amount from government, thereby not feeling the pinch of the fuel increases.
Send this to everyone on your address list... to prevent this corruption going on and the rest of us (non-subsidized drivers) suffers in silence.
You probably didn't even know that fuel for Taxi's is subsidized, which we pay for.
Thanks again to the South African government for screwing it's tax paying citizens while thieves and liars continue being subsidized
Wow this is really shocking but not surprising at all. I guess these slips can also be used for tax fraud - claiming back tax money for "business expenses". Really horrible, and we are paying.
If the government is indeed subsidising petrol money though then I'm not happy about that at all. That is really not good. Firstly, many taxi drivers in South Africa drive like hooligans (I'm not generalising, there are some that I'm sure drive good as well) and now their petrol is getting paid for. And beyond that they are scamming the government too? Bah!
I think the government should rather invest more money into good public transport like larger buses (with proper drivers) and trains.
Copyright © 2004-2009 Charl van Niekerk. All articles are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 South Africa licence, unless where otherwise stated.
2 Comments
Comment by
Arné on Friday, May 16, 2008 4:04:00 AM
Wow, I didn't even know Government(did I just start their name with capitals?) subsidised taxis, now that puts everything just into a whole different prospective.....
Comment by
Charl van Niekerk on Saturday, May 17, 2008 5:56:00 PM
Yeah this is pretty upsetting!
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