Levy kerosene to boost National Energy Fund – New Era

A local economic analyst has called for kerosene to be included in the petroleum levy, arguing that the exclusion of the highly combustible fuel basically means the government is inadvertently subsidising the cost of air travel. (…)

However, a research associate at the Economic Association of Namibia, Klaus Schade, noted in his recent commentary on the escalating fuel price that kerosene is, in fact, excluded from the petroleum levy, which is then turned over to the National Energy Fund…