{"id":668815,"date":"2019-07-31T17:29:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T17:29:59","guid":{"rendered":" <br><div>\n            <div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><figure><img width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1564594199_579_2019-mid-year-budget-review_31-696x464.jpg\"   alt="},"modified":"2019-07-31T17:29:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T17:29:59","slug":"parliament-approves-gh%e2%82%b56-3-billion-supplementary-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/31\/parliament-approves-gh%e2%82%b56-3-billion-supplementary-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament approves GH\u20b56.3 billion supplementary budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1564594199_579_2019-mid-year-budget-review_31-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"2019 mid-year budget review_31\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Ofori-Atta, Finance Minister<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Parliament has approved the  GH\u20b5 6.3 billion requested by the  Finance Minister, Ken Ofori- Atta for extra expenditure for the 2019 Financial Year. <\/p>\n<p>The House, through a majority voice vote, approved the request by the Finance Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Joy News\u2019 Parliamentary correspondent, Joseph Opoku Gakpo, reported that the Minority opposed the approval but members of the Majority had their way.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Finance Committee in Parliament has been tasked to deliberate on the proposed tax increase and present a report to the House for consideration and adoption.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Ofori-Atta, Finance Minister Parliament has approved the GH\u20b5 6.3 billion requested by the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori- Atta for extra expenditure for the 2019 Financial Year. 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Joy News\u2019 Parliamentary correspondent, Joseph Opoku Gakpo, reported that the Minority opposed the approval [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":667094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Parliament approves GH\u20b56.3 billion supplementary budget - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/31\/parliament-approves-gh\u20b56-3-billion-supplementary-budget\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Parliament approves GH\u20b56.3 billion supplementary budget - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Ken Ofori-Atta, Finance Minister Parliament has approved the GH\u20b5 6.3 billion requested by the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori- Atta for extra expenditure for the 2019 Financial Year. 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