ActionSA calls on the Minister of Finance to urgently review and reduce the fuel levy to provide immediate relief to South Africans being squeezed by escalating fuel prices and the rising cost of living.
The fuel price feeds directly into the cost of transporting people and goods, meaning higher fuel prices ultimately translate into higher prices for food, basic goods, services and virtually every part of the economy that depends on transportation.
For businesses, particularly small businesses, these increases place additional pressure on already constrained margins. For ordinary South Africans, they mean less money available for food, electricity, housing and other basic necessities.
We believe there is a credible basis for providing this relief, given SARS’s strong revenue collection performance in the 2025/26 financial year. SARS collected R2.010 trillion in net revenue, R24.7 billion above the estimate made a year earlier and representing growth of 8.4% compared with the previous financial year.
We led the charge to strengthen SARS and provide the revenue service with the resources required to maximise collections and close the tax gap and therefore believe that continued improvements in revenue collection in the coming financial year should create room for temporary relief for struggling South Africans, while maintaining fiscal responsibility.
ActionSA plans to robustly engage with the upcoming Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) to ensure that the GNU government presents a credible plan to provide relief to South Africans while addressing the waste and inefficiencies that continue to place the burden of government failure on citizens.
ActionSA Calls for Urgent Fuel Levy Relief
ActionSA calls on the Minister of Finance to urgently review and reduce the fuel levy to provide immediate relief to South Africans being squeezed by escalating fuel prices and the rising cost of living.
The fuel price feeds directly into the cost of transporting people and goods, meaning higher fuel prices ultimately translate into higher prices for food, basic goods, services and virtually every part of the economy that depends on transportation.
For businesses, particularly small businesses, these increases place additional pressure on already constrained margins. For ordinary South Africans, they mean less money available for food, electricity, housing and other basic necessities.
We believe there is a credible basis for providing this relief, given SARS’s strong revenue collection performance in the 2025/26 financial year. SARS collected R2.010 trillion in net revenue, R24.7 billion above the estimate made a year earlier and representing growth of 8.4% compared with the previous financial year.
We led the charge to strengthen SARS and provide the revenue service with the resources required to maximise collections and close the tax gap and therefore believe that continued improvements in revenue collection in the coming financial year should create room for temporary relief for struggling South Africans, while maintaining fiscal responsibility.
ActionSA plans to robustly engage with the upcoming Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) to ensure that the GNU government presents a credible plan to provide relief to South Africans while addressing the waste and inefficiencies that continue to place the burden of government failure on citizens.