Despite protests, government will go ahead with a carbon tax on the owners of double cabs. Do you agree with the emissions tax? http://www.wheels24.co.z...hit-double-cabs-20100804

This is a lot of hog ...Is it 1 April or what? ..my new ISUZU 3L double cab is actually lighter on juice than my 1.8L Audi A4 Turbo!

With the condition of the roads in SA you cant venture out of town in any thing other than a bakkie or SUV with full size tyres. Low profiles and fancy alloys dont work on rural roads. I learned the hard way. The tax wont go to improving roads or any environmental issues either.

Why dont we just turn into a communistic country. At the end of the day, 80% of our salary goes to goverment in some way anyway. What the heck are we working for. Electricity hikes , new toll fees on highways, feul levies, property taxes, all revised to take us for more. This on top historically heavily taxed citizens. Where's the benefit of living in SA, down the tubes where it is. It really pi***s me off.

lets see low c/o levels with NO payment off licence disc below 120 as in uk add all the taxes up in vehicle sales in s/a its 44.5 per cent having bought a ford ranger wildtrack in june 09 in uk at13.715 pounds ==at 11.5 rand =157 thosand rand and in s/a its 425000 what a rip off but someone has to pay the taxes for the goverment thank you and good day

Before you purchase a new car just tell the dealer to register it on the dealers name. Then purchase the vehicle as a demo. No Carbon Tax. I have given up on the government. Between Trevor Manuals arrogance, Pravin Gordhan's tax collecting and the greed/corruption of the politicians, they going to through us into a economic depression. I think of Trevor and Pravin as the famous characters, King John and the Sheriff of Nottingham. Just waiting for some robin hood political party to arrive on the scene

I drive a Merc Benz 220 CDi. It has averaged 6.1 l/100km for the past 30 000km, which is the best I have done with any vehicle I have ever owned. Will I be taxed because it is a "bigger" car than the "smaller" one's I have owned before? I f so, something is not right!

Its a whole pile of crap, its just another way to get money to buy some over indulgent, non working politian a new BMW or even 4x4, will he pay the "emissions tax"?

Wonder how much of the money end up in Al Gore's pocket? He's done enough sales on this over the past few years!

I have just read that all cars will be taxed with the new carbon emissions tax. These are not only the new cars being sold in the showrooms as of the 1st of September this year, EVERY secondhand car, according to Mr Gordhan, will also be taxed in some way!! Can anyone confirm or find out how the government plans to judge the emissions on each and every motorvehicle in South Africa. It was noted that the tax would be levied on our yearly licence fees, which means that this will not just be a once off fee when you buy a new vehicle, this will become a continuous leakage from our pockets.

If our government succeeds with this, even the little old lady driving a 1975 VW Beetle will have to pay emissions tax, nevermind the rest of us who own cars older than ten years. I believe that in first world countries, this idealism works as infrastructure and public transport there, are organised and working. Implementing this in our country, won't give us the results that this tax was meant for. This will become just another way for the bureaucrats, who try and manage this country of ours, to laugh their way to the bank once again.

I truely hope that I am proved wrong, but in the meantime I will continue to be pessimistic of the management who runs our country.