{"id":721409,"date":"2019-10-11T19:34:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T19:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/10\/11\/communications-ministry-issues-directive-for-9-tax-increment\/"},"modified":"2019-10-11T19:34:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T19:34:43","slug":"communications-ministry-issues-directive-for-9-tax-increment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/11\/communications-ministry-issues-directive-for-9-tax-increment\/","title":{"rendered":"Communications Ministry issues directive for 9% tax increment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.adomonline.com\/communications-ministry-issues-directive-for-9-tax-increment\/\">\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"397\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Ursula-Copy-696x397.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Ursula (Copy)\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Communications Minister<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Communications Ministry has issued directives for the implementation of the 9% communication tax increment.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Ministry, the increment is from the existing 6% to 9% and was expected to take effect from September 4, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>A statement signed by the sector Minister, Mrs Ursula Owusu Ekuful, said the increment was to provide revenue for cyber security initiative to protect digital infrastructures being used by the public and private sector.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cAll efforts to get them revert to the September 2019 has failed as they literally extract their pound of flesh from their consumers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll unused data and voice bundles purchased by subscribers do not expire and must be rolled over to the next recharge.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_20191011-163547_2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1712140\"  \/><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Source: Adomonline.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Communications Minister The Communications Ministry has issued directives for the implementation of the 9% communication tax increment. According to the Ministry, the increment is from the existing 6% to 9% and was expected to take effect from September 4, 2019. A statement signed by the sector Minister, Mrs Ursula Owusu Ekuful, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":721410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721409","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>Communications Ministry issues directive for 9% tax increment - 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\/10\/11\/communications-ministry-issues-directive-for-9-tax-increment\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Communications Ministry issues directive for 9% tax increment - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Communications Minister The Communications Ministry has issued directives for the implementation of the 9% communication tax increment. 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