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Parliament\nwill today witness fierce debate on the supplementary budget presented to the\nHouse yesterday by the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indication\nwas given via Order Paper Addendum that the House was supposed to app"},"modified":"2019-07-30T13:06:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T13:06:59","slug":"fierce-debate-on-supplementary-budget-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/30\/fierce-debate-on-supplementary-budget-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Fierce Debate On Supplementary Budget Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Parliament
\nwill today witness fierce debate on the supplementary budget presented to the
\nHouse yesterday by the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta.<\/p>\n

Indication
\nwas given via Order Paper Addendum that the House was supposed to approve the
\nsupplementary budget immediately after the presentation by the minister, but
\nbecause of other businesses of the House before the Finance Minister presented
\nthe mid-year review and supplementary budget, time was not on the side of the
\nSpeaker to allow for exhaustive debate on the supplementary budget before its
\napproval by the House.<\/p>\n

Even
\nthough the Minister of Finance announced some relieving policies in the review,
\nhe indicated that the government would increase nominally the communication service
\ntax and the energy sector levy. As a result of that, the Minority NDC members
\nare ready to capitalize on those\u00a0 upward
\ntax reviews to pollute the minds of Ghanaians about how insensitive the ruling
\nNew Patriotic Party (NPP) is.<\/p>\n

As
\nsoon as the minister finished with the presentation of the supplementary budget,
\nthe Minority members rushed to the parlour of the chamber where a number of
\nmedia houses had mounted their cameras to grant interviews to press men on the
\nincreases in communication service tax and the energy sector levy.<\/p>\n

The
\nNDC MP for Ellembele and former Minister of Energy, Emmanuel Armah Kofi-Buah,
\nsaid the NPP government is very insensitive and deceptive, after promising
\nGhanaians that when voted into power it would scrap the energy sector levy and
\nalso reduce electricity tariffs.<\/p>\n

He
\nsaid after the government decided to reduce electricity tariffs, it turned
\naround to increase the tariffs again and now after promising to scrap the
\nenergy sector levy introduced by the NDC government, it has rather increased it
\nwhich will significantly affect petroleum prices.<\/p>\n

The
\nranking member of Communications Committee and NDC MP for Sagnarigu, A.B.A.
\nFuseini, said the announcement of the increase in communications tax would
\ncripple the telecommunication industry and that if the telecos want to break
\neven then they would definitely pass on the taxes to the consumers and that
\nwould be disastrous for Ghanaians.<\/p>\n

A
\nmember of the Finance Committee and New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of
\nParliament, Daniel Okyem Aboagye, said the increment of the energy sector levy
\nis necessary to enable the government pay the legacy debt left by the NDC in
\nthe energy sector as a result of mismanagement of the sector.<\/p>\n

He
\nsaid the government cannot continue to sit down while the energy debt left by
\nthe NDC continues to pile up and has, therefore, been real to raise the energy
\nsector levy nominally to help pay for the debt.<\/p>\n

He said the NPP would not behave like the NDC by telling Ghanaians the truth, adding \u201cwe want to be real to Ghanaians and tell the reality of the economy and the need to impose these taxes to clear off some legacy debts left by the NDC administration.\u201d<\/p>\n

By Thomas Fosu Jnr<\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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