Proposal for vehicles

The Mozambican Road Fund has proposed to the government that national and foreign light vehicles entering or leaving Mozambique through border posts be required to pay a road tax towards investment in the country’s road network. No specific amount, or the roads covered, is mentioned. The toll charges proposed will ensure the participation of users in the maintenance of road infrastructures within the scope of the Self-Sustained Road Maintenance Programme (PROASME).

“We are reviewing the instrument that regulates road charges with a view to covering light vehicles and those with foreign registration so that, within the scope of reciprocity between the two countries where there is a road and a border post, these cars will be subject to paying road tax ,” chairman of the board of directors of the Road Fund, ngelo Macuácua, explained. Macuácua was speaking in Maputo on Thursday, after his appointment on March 30 as president of the Southern Africa group of the African Roads Maintenance Funds Association (ARMFA).

ARMFA, which promotes good practice in financing road maintenance and construction, is an association of 34 road funds, representing an equal number of countries. The organization has nine members in southern Africa: Mozambique, Angola, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Namibia, Comoros, Zambia and Zimbabwe.