{"id":1041399,"date":"2022-04-01T09:09:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T09:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/01\/president-signs-e-levy-bill-into-law\/"},"modified":"2022-04-01T09:09:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T09:09:32","slug":"president-signs-e-levy-bill-into-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/01\/president-signs-e-levy-bill-into-law\/","title":{"rendered":"President signs E-Levy Bill into law"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Accra, March 31, GNA – President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has signed the Electronic Transaction Levy (E-Levy) Bill passed by Parliament last Tuesday into law.<\/p>\n
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The President signed the Bill into law moments after a Cabinet meeting at the Jubilee House, Accra, on Thursday.<\/div>\n
The Bill, which for sometime generated angst, both in public discuss and in the legislature, was passed by a one-sided Parliament after members on the Minority side refused to take part in the deliberations on the tax on electronic transactions.<\/div>\n
They said the Bill was unfair to Ghanaians and walked out of the Chamber of the House before the consideration stage of the statute last Tuesday.<\/div>\n
The President’s assent to the Bill paves the way for a charge of 1.5 percent tax on all electronic transactions, including mobile money payment, beginning May this year.<\/div>\n
Government says the tax would help the country rake in some 900 million dollars that would help solve the current economic challenges of the nation.<\/div>\n
Moments after the passage of the Bill, three members of Parliament on the Minority side filed a suit at the Supreme Court challenging the passage of the Bill.<\/div>\n
Their contention is that the House did not meet the required quorum of members before the Bill was passed.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Accra, March 31, GNA – President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has signed the Electronic Transaction Levy (E-Levy) Bill passed by Parliament last Tuesday into law. The President signed the Bill into law moments after a Cabinet meeting at the Jubilee House, Accra, on Thursday. The Bill, which for sometime generated angst, both in public discuss […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1041400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[1790,2099,1498,275,340],"class_list":["post-1041399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-bill","tag-elevy","tag-law","tag-president","tag-signs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041399","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=1041399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}