{"id":1053716,"date":"2022-04-12T11:46:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T11:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/12\/e-levy-checkout-transfers-that-will-not-attract-1-5-charge\/"},"modified":"2022-04-12T11:46:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T11:46:37","slug":"e-levy-checkout-transfers-that-will-not-attract-1-5-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/12\/e-levy-checkout-transfers-that-will-not-attract-1-5-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"E-levy: Checkout transfers that will not attract 1.5% charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"443\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1432633194399_6490559961232.jpg\"   alt=\"MOMO\" title=\"MOMO\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The Electronic Transfer Levy, known as E-Levy, is set to be implemented next month 1 May 2022, thus the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has outlined the transactions that will not be affected by the new tax policy.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Authority, although the tax policy is to broaden the tax net, not all electronic transactions will come with a 1.5% tax rate.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on JoyNews\u2019 Current Affairs show dubbed \u2018The Probe\u2019. Head of Compliance, Domestic Tax Revenue Unit at GRA, Mr. Victor Yao Akogo listed transfers that will not be taxed as follows;<\/p>\n<p>A cumulative transfer of \u00a2100 is made by the same person.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>A transfer between accounts owned by the same person.<\/p>\n<p>Transfers for the payment of taxes, fees, and charges on the Ghana.gov platform<\/p>\n<p>Electronic clearing of cheques<\/p>\n<p>Specified merchant payments (that is, payments to commercial establishments registered with the GRA for income tax and VAT purposes).<\/p>\n<p>Transfers between the principal, master agent, and agent\u2019s accounts.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"YufUf3x02sw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fabio Gama should have been booked rather than calling for penalty \u2013 Effah Tetteh - AdomTV (11-4-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YufUf3x02sw?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electronic Transfer Levy, known as E-Levy, is set to be implemented next month 1 May 2022, thus the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has outlined the transactions that will not be affected by the new tax policy. According to the Authority, although the tax policy is to broaden the tax net, not all electronic transactions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[2690,2815,2013,2099,7383],"class_list":["post-1053716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-attract","tag-charge","tag-checkout","tag-elevy","tag-transfers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053716","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=1053716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}