{"id":1062312,"date":"2022-04-20T19:13:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T19:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/20\/cpp-makes-proposition-for-e-levy-oversight-committee\/"},"modified":"2022-04-20T19:13:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T19:13:44","slug":"cpp-makes-proposition-for-e-levy-oversight-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/20\/cpp-makes-proposition-for-e-levy-oversight-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"CPP makes proposition for E-Levy oversight committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\n                                                   Accra, April 20, GNA &#8211; Ms Nana Yaa Jantuah, General Secretary of the Convention Peoples Party (CPP), has proposed the formation of a committee for the monitoring of the proceeds that would accrue from the E-Levy and their disbursement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1.21459968.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"kMediaObject\"\/><\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">She told the Ghana News Agency in an interview, ahead of the commencement of E-levy collection May 4, 2022 that a Special account should be created for E Levy proceeds<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Ms Jantuah said composition of the committee should have representatives from selected Ministries, including the Ministries of Finance, Works and Housing, Education and Health.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">&#8220;The committee must also  have  financial experts as well as representatives from one or two political parties  as members.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Ms Jantuah called for the creation of a special E-levy account to facilitate monitoring of the proceeds.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">&#8220;We can look at the activities that E-Levy is supposed to support with this structure in place and if the project is outside the activities earmarked for the E-Levy, the committee would be able to kick against it&#8221;, she said.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">She said, once the E-Levy ends up in the Consolidated Fund, there would be accountability challenges, just as there have been with some other public funds.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">&#8220;The E-Levy proceeds going into the Consolidated Fund, I do not think it is the right way to go&#8221;, she argued.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accra, April 20, GNA &#8211; Ms Nana Yaa Jantuah, General Secretary of the Convention Peoples Party (CPP), has proposed the formation of a committee for the monitoring of the proceeds that would accrue from the E-Levy and their disbursement. She told the Ghana News Agency in an interview, ahead of the commencement of E-levy collection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1062313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[1309,8955,2099,4285,6227],"class_list":["post-1062312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-committee","tag-cpp","tag-elevy","tag-oversight","tag-proposition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062312","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=1062312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}