Tax increases will make transport even more expensive
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Tax increases and higher costs of living — what we can expect from the budget speech 2020.
According the Stats SA the annual consumer price inflation was 4.5% for the month of January 2020, up from 4.0% in December 2019.Of that 4.5%, transport contributed 0.9% with an overall increase of 6.4% (year-on-year).
This tells us consumers now have to spend more on transport.
With thousands of people commuting daily between Johannesburg and Pretoria, Gauteng has the highest percentage of people who spend more than 30 minutes to get to work each day, and ultimately pay some of the highest transport costs.
TimesLIVE caught up with three commuters who use different modes of transport to find out how much it costs them per day.
According the Stats SA the annual consumer price inflation was 4.5% for the month of January 2020, up from 4.0% in December 2019.Of that 4.5%, transport contributed 0.9% with an overall increase of 6.4% (year-on-year).
This tells us consumers now have to spend more on transport.
With thousands of people commuting daily between Johannesburg and Pretoria, Gauteng has the highest percentage of people who spend more than 30 minutes to get to work each day, and ultimately pay some of the highest transport costs.
TimesLIVE caught up with three commuters who use different modes of transport to find out how much it costs them per day.
