{"id":1073164,"date":"2022-05-01T22:08:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T22:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/01\/is-the-enacted-law-being-rewritten-by-gra-h-prempeh-quizzes-gra-implementation-guidelines\/"},"modified":"2022-05-01T22:08:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T22:08:39","slug":"is-the-enacted-law-being-rewritten-by-gra-h-prempeh-quizzes-gra-implementation-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/01\/is-the-enacted-law-being-rewritten-by-gra-h-prempeh-quizzes-gra-implementation-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Is The Enacted Law Being Rewritten By GRA? H. Prempeh Quizzes GRA Implementation Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/6b0b84db80414411a6efc7e73b134458\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The executive director of Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), professor H. Kwasi Prempeh has questioned the Ghana Revenue Authority for implementing the e-levi in a way contrary to what the law enacted.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to a statement released by the Ghana Revenue Authority explaining why some people were taxed for sending money less than Ghc100, Professor H. Kwasi Prempeh said the &#8220;implementation guidelines&#8221; cannot change or rewrite law.  law says a particular transaction is tax-exempt, you cannot use your so-called implementation guidelines to tax that transaction.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the implementation Guidelines as stated by the Ghana Revenue Authority <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/5b3f33b9daf442b795625509f97d05a4\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the letter, H. Kwasi Prempeh said in the comments section;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/f92f75f7721f475c8d591dfaa7c6a613\"\/><\/p>\n<p>He further added that even if the Ghana Revenue Authority is not technologically ready to implement the Electronic levy, what is the point in rushing to implement it?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been decided . . . .&#8221; Is the enacted law being rewritten by GRA? GRA is required to implement the law as enacted, not decide to do whatever is convenient for the time being.&#8221;..but it is the use of the TECHNOLOGY that is being taxed. So if you aren&#8217;t technology-ready, what&#8217;s the point? He queried <\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Newsflash (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nGhana<br \/>\nGhana Center for Democratic Development<br \/>\nGhana Revenue Authority<br \/>\nH. Kwasi Prempeh<br \/>\nH. Prempeh<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The executive director of Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), professor H. Kwasi Prempeh has questioned the Ghana Revenue Authority for implementing the e-levi in a way contrary to what the law enacted. Reacting to a statement released by the Ghana Revenue Authority explaining why some people were taxed for sending money less than Ghc100, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1073165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11252,624,3801,258,1498,1669,7744,11253],"class_list":["post-1073164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-enacted","tag-gra","tag-guidelines","tag-implementation","tag-law","tag-prempeh","tag-quizzes","tag-rewritten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073164","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=1073164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}