{"id":1073434,"date":"2022-05-02T08:30:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T08:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/02\/suspend-taxes-on-fuel-tuc\/"},"modified":"2022-05-02T08:30:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T08:30:22","slug":"suspend-taxes-on-fuel-tuc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/02\/suspend-taxes-on-fuel-tuc\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspend taxes on fuel \u2013 TUC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"455\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Fuel-696x455.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Fuel\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Secretary-General of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Dr Yaw Baah, has called for the suspension of taxes on fuel until prices are stabilised.<\/p>\n<p>He said the high prices of fuel, with negative effect on food and commodity prices, was impacting workers\u2019 wages badly and affecting the standard of living.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe, therefore, call on Government to suspend all taxes and all levies on petrol and diesel and LPG concurrently until the international price of crude oil and the value of the Cedi has stabilised. This will bring down prices of fuel products and ease the burden on Ghanaians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He appealed to President Akufo-Addo on Sunday at the May Day parade held at the Black Star Square in Accra to intervene and improve the ordinary Ghanaian worker\u2019s purchasing power.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Dr Baah called on Government to, as a matter of urgency, review the single spine pay policy and pay workers living wage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we speak, minimum wage earners in Ghana are currently receiving 13 cedis 53 pesewas for a whole day\u2019s work or 365 cedis for a whole month\u2019s work. This is below the 1.9-dollar international poverty line at the current exchange rate\u2026salaries have lost over a third of their real value as prices of essential commodities, including food and fuel continue to increase on daily basis.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He lamented over the \u201cpoor structuring\u201d of the salary of Public Sector employees, which he said also affected pensions particularly, those not captured under the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT).<\/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=\"FImxysnlOzo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Egg distributors in Accra reject new retail price \u2013 Dwadie \u2013 Adom TV News (29-4-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FImxysnlOzo?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>File photo The Secretary-General of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Dr Yaw Baah, has called for the suspension of taxes on fuel until prices are stabilised. 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