{"id":1038221,"date":"2022-03-29T13:10:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T13:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/29\/finance-minister-moves-motion-for-e-levy-passage\/"},"modified":"2022-03-29T13:10:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T13:10:14","slug":"finance-minister-moves-motion-for-e-levy-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/29\/finance-minister-moves-motion-for-e-levy-passage\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance Minister Moves Motion For E-Levy Passage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Ken Ofori-Atta<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta today moved the motion for the passage of the Electronic Transaction Levy also known as E-levy in Parliament, DGN Online can report.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a statement presented to the House on the E-levy on Tuesday March 29, 200.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Ofori-Atta stated in his conclusion statement that \u201cI therefore move the motion for the passage of the E-levy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Without wasting much time, the Member of Parliament for Obuasi West in the Ashanti Region, Kwaku Kwarteng seconded the motion.<\/p>\n<p>But the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu rose against the motion.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, they could not deliberate on it because they did\u2019nt have access to the the report.<\/p>\n<p>He was supported by Tamale Central lawmaker, Murtala Mohammed.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Speaker Alban Bagbin ruling on the matter indicated that \u201cThe copies of the report are being distributed now, I don\u2019t think it is proper for us to suspend sitting, I will give you time to read the report to make meaningful contribution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-360030\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/statement-4-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"651\" height=\"876\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Vincent Kubi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Ofori-Atta The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta today moved the motion for the passage of the Electronic Transaction Levy also known as E-levy in Parliament, DGN Online can report. This was contained in a statement presented to the House on the E-levy on Tuesday March 29, 200. Ken Ofori-Atta stated in his conclusion statement that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[2099,457,1223,2241,328,1793],"class_list":["post-1038221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-elevy","tag-finance","tag-minister","tag-motion","tag-moves","tag-passage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}