Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, Minster has asked Ghanaians not to fear the E-Levy assuring them that its proceeds would ensure good infrastructure for the country.
Speaking at a town hall meeting held in Tamale, the finance minister said, “Payment of the E-Levy will be your contribution to the state, who has done a lot for you.”
The town hall meeting organized in Tamale, is the third in the series by the government and forms part of avenues being used to consult the citizenry and explain the need for them to support the E-Levy, which was introduced in the 2022 national budget.
In the budget, the government projected to raise 6.9 billion Ghana Cedis through the E-Levy
Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Minister for Information assured especially mobile money vendors that just like the communication service tax, which did not stop people from making phone calls, the E-Levy would not collapse the mobile money business.
Some participants at the government’s town hall meeting on the economy said they were not convinced by the arguments advanced by the Ministers of State for the introduction of the Electronic Transactions Levy (E-Levy).
They were of the view that the E-Levy would rather be biting and deplete hard-earned money in their pockets.
However, Mr Alhassan Seidu, a mobile money vendor, who spoke to the Ghana News Agency after the town hall meeting, said Mr Ofori-Atta could not, "assure us that the E-Levy will not collapse our business."
Mr Seidu said this would affect mobile money transactions thereby, collapse jobs and further exacerbate the unemployment situation in the country.
Source: GNA
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GHANAIANS ARE BEING FOOOOLED BY ASIEDU NKETIA WHO HAS HIS WIFE, CHILDREN IN CANADA , A HOUSE AND THEY PAY HIGH TAXES BUT DON'T CARE ABOUT ORDINARY GHANAIAN YET THEY SAY ALL KINDS OF THINGS HE CAN TRAVEL HERE ANYTIME BUT ORDINARY GHANAIAN CANNOT WHEN THEY ARE SICK SO YOU BETTER PAY THE LITTLE TAXES OF 1.75% THAN 13% IN ONE PROVINCE IN ONTARIO CANADA WHICH IS 13%. The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, in 1987 obtained a first class degree in economics from the University of Buckingham, the only independent university with a Royal Charter. In Ontario, Canada. There's a provincial tax called (Hamonous) and it's 13% that is added to everything you buy from the shop. Suppose you see a pair of shoes that is priced at $100, you'd pay additional 13% on it so you'd end up paying for $113 at the cashier. Ghanaians complain too much but expect so much... Even if you go to the bank and exchange money from Canadian dollars to the US dollars, you'd be taxed 7% SO 1.75% IS A DROP IN THE OCEAN AND TELL GHANAIANS NOT TO THINk OF COMING TO NORTH AMERICA BECAUSE TAXES IS WHAT MAKE THIS COUNTRY WORKED USA AND CANADA government DO NOT BORROW TO PROVIDE FOR THEIR CITIZENS
You want to put your hands in our pockets and said we shouldn't worry? In fact I see this as arm Rubbery. Nana Addo and his boys are trying to start rubbing the very people you were promising heaven on Earth, if you come to power. Now you see that you can lie to get something but can't lie to keep it?
There are a lot of Lawyers are not paying taxes ,so a lot of business than in the night which are not paying and also a lot of money going to individual using the name of government .PLEASE not burden the tax payer (ordinary worker)anymore .Please cut down expenditure, check whether we are making profit or loss (too much waste in the system).