{"id":1071229,"date":"2022-04-29T16:37:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T16:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/29\/e-levy-will-not-affect-tithes-and-offering-john-kumah\/"},"modified":"2022-04-29T16:37:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T16:37:09","slug":"e-levy-will-not-affect-tithes-and-offering-john-kumah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/29\/e-levy-will-not-affect-tithes-and-offering-john-kumah\/","title":{"rendered":"E-levy will not affect tithes and offering \u2013 John Kumah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/4FD9E818-24D8-4A28-988C-C8B406C32B70-696x522.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Chief Executive Officer of the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme (NEIP), Mr John Kuma\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Kumah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1259187814&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Deputy Finance Minister, Dr John Kumah, has denied the assertion that payment of tithes and other religious obligations will be affected by the Electronic Transaction levy (E-levy).<\/p>\n<p>Dr John Kumah on Friday said government is not taxing the tithes and offering of religious persons in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a complete lie and falsehood that E-levy will tax tithe and offerings. E-levy does not affect Church\u2019s tithe and offering or Zakat,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Kumah comment is in reaction to claims by the Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, Sam Nartey George that E-levy will affect tithes.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>But the Deputy Minister in an interview on Joy Prime\u2019s AM show said if churches register as merchants, there is no way payment to that platform will be exempted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you decide to pay your tithe of GH\u00a22000, exactly GH\u00a22000 will go to the church\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Dr John Kumah, therefore, entreated the public to disregard claims that the levy would affect tithes and offerings.<\/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=\"6JVC5cZyYiY\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Two Poachers Sentenced to 72 Days In Prison For Killing Buffalo - Premtobre Kasee on Adom TV(29-4-22\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6JVC5cZyYiY?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>John Kumah The Deputy Finance Minister, Dr John Kumah, has denied the assertion that payment of tithes and other religious obligations will be affected by the Electronic Transaction levy (E-levy). Dr John Kumah on Friday said government is not taxing the tithes and offering of religious persons in the country. \u201cIt is a complete lie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1071231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[5281,2099,678,679,9268,10701],"class_list":["post-1071229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-affect","tag-elevy","tag-john","tag-kumah","tag-offering","tag-tithes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071229","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=1071229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}