Ghanaians are being told to stop whining, making ugly noises about the 1.5 percent electronic transaction tax (e-levy) because if the levy is compared to what others are paying elsewhere, it is just nothing.
The Most Reverend Professor Joseph Obiri Yeboah Mante, the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, decried the situation where many Ghanaians would not want to pay tax but want everything to be done for them.
Things do not work that way, that is not how to develop a country.
The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church said, yes, people have been complaining that they are not seeing what the government has been doing with the taxes they have been paying, the truth of the matter is that what Ghanaians have been paying “is too small”.
He is advising everybody that discussions on taxation must be depoliticized.
The Commissioner-General of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has signaled that phased implementation of the 1.5 percent electronic transaction tax (e-levy) is going to start, come Sunday, May 1, 2022.
The GRA has chosen to go by the phased approach because some of the charging agencies are yet to fully integrate with the E-levy Management System.
A letter to this effect informing the charging agencies says it has come out from the GRA’s assessment of the general readiness of the charging agencies that some of them are yet to integrate with the E-levy Management System.
“The Commissioner-General has decided on modified phased implementation of the levy from May 1, 2022.”
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tongu in the Volta Region, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, had earlier threatened to drag the Commissioner-General of the GRA, Amisshaddai Owusu-Amoah, announcing that the collection of the e-levy was going to begin on May 1, 2022. will happen”.
The North Tongu MP together with two other MPs on the minority side of the aisle have filed an injunction application at the Supreme Court, seeking to stop the collection of the tax.
Majority Leader and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, had downplayed the move by the Minority to torpedo the implementation of the 1.5 percent electronic transaction tax, saying, they are only gunning down vultures.
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